Freya Stark Alexander's Path 
“She has written the best travel books of her generation and her name will survive as an artist in prose Harold Nicolson.”  
About the Book:  
First Edition 1958 - A very RARE find. “This is a travel book of rare imaginative quality by a writer with a unique power of making us feel that we are travelling and travelling hopefully and with excitement in time as well a space.”
In this book Freya Stark extends her Turkish journeys to Pampyhlia, Chelidonai, the uplands of Cibyritis and the mountain passes. Compared with her journey in The Lycian Shore, much of which is accomplished by boat in circumstances conducive to a scholarly meditation. Alexander’s Path was accomplished by jeep and on horseback involving to a far greater extent the business and adventure o travel through places little frequented and among the inland Turks whose courtesy and generosity to strangers seems unrelated to the meagreness of their resources. But through her own travels there is the story of her search for Alexander the Great and the significance of his friendship with the Queen of Caria. Although much has been written about him yet, strangely enough, his motives and his march through the Anatonlian coastlands still lies as it were in a patch of darkness, in spite of the fact that a whole winter out of his brief life was spent in this mountainous and little-known region.  Perhaps it is his vison of a united world that most stirs our imagination and any links that unite this ancient dream, across the gap of twenty-two centuries, with our hopes must interest us deeply.
 
 Illustrated with 76 Author’s photographs and drawings.  See images for the list.  
Title Page Wood Engraving by Reynolds Stone.
Drawings in the Text by the Author 
 
Book Type: Hard back with Dust Jacket 
Genre:  Travel, Lifestyle 
Edition: Ist edition 1958
Published:  John Murray, Albemarle Street. London
ISBN: Pre ISBN numbering.
Size: 23x 15cm
Pages: 281 pages
 
Contents
Foreword
PART 1 CILICIA
Issus and Castabala
Mersin, Soli and Olba
Cilician Digression Seleucia to Anamur
Cilician Digression Anamaur to Antalya
PART 2 PAMPHYLIA
The Pamphylian Plain
Mount Climax
The Pamphylian Defiles
Selge
PART 3 LYCIA
The Chelidonian Crossing
The Valley of the Alagir Chay
The Eastern Wall of Xanthus
The coast Road of Lycia
The oaf to Finike From Myra
The Highlands of Xanthus
Oenoanda and the Passes of Xanthus
The Wall of Xanthus
Appendix 1 (With maps)
Alexander’s March from Miletus to Phrygia
Appendix 2
Approximate mileages 
References
Bibliography
Map
Index
 
CONDITION:
Dust Jacket: age related wear to outer edges with some creasing and bumping and yellowing. Not Price Clipped.  
Covers: Green board covers are overall strong with sun fade to the top and bottom. Some small marks to front and back and some scuffing and wear to all the outer edges. 
Binding: Tight 
Spine: Leaning sun fade to title shows minor wear and scuffing. 
Pages.  All pages complete. In good condition bright and clean.  
Back Story and Biography.
Freya Stark was a British explorer and travel writer. During her 100-year life, she travelled to repressed regions and wrote about her experiences. She was one of the first Westerners to visit the Elburz Mountains in Iran and from the experience she wrote The Valleys of the Assassins. Stark served as a nurse in World War I and an activist in World War II. She received the Royal Geographical Society’s Back Award in 1933, the Mungo Park Medal in 1935, the Founder’s Gold Medal in 1942, and was knighted in 1972. Courtesy of Timeline - Women in Exploration
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