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The Southern Gates Of Arabia - A Journey In The Hadbramaut
By Freya Stark
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a travel journal made by a British woman who journeyed to Arabia to follow the Incense Trade route. It was in the 1930's, before oil took over and when it was as it had been for centuries. Very interesting but very detailled.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5read this nexti wouldn't read stark again. i didn't find her interesting even though her trip should be very interesting.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5After a brief introductory chapter giving the history of the Hadhramaut (roughly modern Yemen), Stark starts her travel story by wondering why a ship appears to be a more satisfactory possession than a woman for peace loving men! She also remarks upon the indigo on the skin of the beduin (sic, and not Arabs) who she meets at Cana, which I hadn’t heard about before. Some of these beduin guide and escort her into the interior of the Hadhramaut, as she rides a donkey and walks as the impulse takes her for the first part of her journey and than travels by car. The book is copiously illustrated with photos taken by Stark, and although these are in black and white, and not high resolution as they were taken in 1935, they help in conjuring up a world which may have appeared ancient and unchanged for centuries to Stark, but would subsequently change rapidly. The beduin were dressed not at all as I expected, with those travelling with Stark wearing little more than loin cloths that look like shorts (but have folds where they keep tobacco, sugar and tea), some form of head wear (not a turban), a knife in a sheath, and little else.I preferred the first part of the journey, where Stark would sleep on the trail or receive hospitality from the rulers of towns. However the whole journey is described in what are now such romantic terms, with a charming style journey was and gently humorous manner, describing places now lost following the impact of the West and “civilisation “. Unfortunately Stark became ill before she managed to reach her notional destination, so the ending is abrupt, but the journey was full of beautiful descriptions and is well worth the read