A review by bookcrazylady45
Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

3.0

Timing is everything. I bought this a couple years ago and started it and could not get into it and skimmed to finish and thought I would just give it away but held on hoping to give it another chance. Now that I am deep into reading biographies of famous aristocrats, adventurers, artists, aesthetes, writers, and poets and politicians who filled Britain from 1900 to 2000+, I read Freya's name in Nicholas Haslam's biography and picked it up to check on something and began reading and got caught up. I learned an extraordinary amount about the middle east which really gave me perspective on its current situation and actually clarified and slightly changed my point of view. Freya was a remarkable woman of genius with a love of adventure and incredible bravery. The small bits of her writing included in this books give some idea of her abilities and explains why her books were so successful. I could go on and on about what she did before and after the war, the famous men she worked with who appreciated her talents.