Perseus in the Wind is Freya Stark’s most personal work.
Dame Freya Stark the “poet of travel” has inspired women travelers since her first book, The Valley of the Assassins, was published in 1934. Though by that time she had already made 3 treks through what is now Western Iran. She was not only the first western woman to trek in much of the middle-east, but the first westerner at all.
Why did so go? Like WanderLit readers, she was inspired by books.
Born a sickly child to artistic parents, she had a well-stimulated imagination and lots of time in bed to read. At nine, she received a copy of One Thousand and One Nights. The Islamic golden age fascinated her and instilled in her a longing for the “Orient” as it was known to her.
Like so many of us WanderLit readers, it was literature that held Freya by the heart and drew her out into the wide world.
Would you like to know her better?
Throughout July 2013, you can enter to win a copy of Perseus in the Wind by Freya Stark. Perseus in the Wind is her most personal and intimate work.Two winners will be chosen in August in time to read it under the Perseid Meteor Showers.
You have two ways to enter and two chances to win.
1. Leave a comment on this post telling me why you are a WanderLit reader.
2. Follow @WanderLit on twitter.
One commenter and one new twitter follower will win a Trade Paberback copy of Freya Stark’s Perseus in the Wind from The Freya Stark Collection from Macmillan. (value $15.00)
Details: Entry closes at 11:59 Daylight Savings Time on July 31, 2013. The winners will be selected and notified August 1, 2013. The winning commenter will be notified via email and the winning twitter follower will be notified via twitter message. Winners will have 3 days to respond or a new winner will be chosen. Will Ship to North American addresses only.
Good luck! I hope Dame Freya inspires your wanderlust and sends you on your own amazing adventures.
Read ~ Write ~ Wander
~Angie
(Book cover art from Macmillan and Freya Stark portrait shared under fair use.)