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Autobiography and memoir

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech.

Freya Stark

1948

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Wilderness Solitude Silence

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Man and nature

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Autobiography and memoir

Time

1948

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Freya Stark

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Stark, Freya. Perseus in the Wind. London: John Murray, 1948, ch. 1.

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