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Freya Stark

1893 - 1993

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Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993) was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Freya Stark is the 284th most popular explorer (up from 286th in 2019), the 3,215th most popular biography from France (up from 3,262nd in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Freya Stark ranks 284 out of 498. Before her are László Almásy, William Smith, Pierre Poivre, Willem de Vlamingh, Estêvão Gomes, and Ludwig Leichhardt. After her are Ivan Papanin, Nuno Tristão, Francis Younghusband, Jim Bridger, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, and Anthony Jenkinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Freya Stark ranks 151. Before her are Meghnad Saha, Rued Langgaard, Costante Girardengo, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Hilda Geiringer, and Ernest B. Schoedsack. After her are Herbert Read, Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony, Rahul Sankrityayan, Vicente Huidobro, Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, and Olga Baclanova. Among people deceased in 1993, Freya Stark ranks 118. Before her are Guido Masetti, Stanley Myers, Henry Hazlitt, Yuri Bezmenov, Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo, and Buddhadasa. After her are Deke Slayton, Pierre Victor Auger, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Jan Gies, Cyril Cusack, and GG Allin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Freya Stark ranks 3,215 out of 6,770. Before her are Jules Barbier (1825), Gaspard de Prony (1755), Princess Anne of Orléans (1906), Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Simon Marmion (1425), and Charles Rollin (1661). After her are Henri Brocard (1845), Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1724), René Daumal (1908), and Auguste Vaillant (1861).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Freya Stark ranks 28. Before her are Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), René Caillié (1799), Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605), Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne (1724), André Thevet (1516), and Pierre Poivre (1719). After her are Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755), Jacques Labillardière (1755), Nicolas Baudin (1754), Louis de Freycinet (1779), Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), and Henri Duveyrier (1840).

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