{"product_id":"perseus-in-the-wind-a-life-of-travel-9781838601812","title":"Perseus in the Wind: A Life of Travel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'She has written the best travel books of her generation and her name will survive as an artist in prose.' - \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten just after the Second World War, \u003ci\u003ePerseus in the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark's writings. She muses on the seasons, the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day, the smell of the earth after rain, Muslim saints, Indian temples, war and old age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach chapter is devoted to a particular theme: happiness (simple pleasures, like her father's passion for the view from his cabin in Canada); education (to be able to command happiness, recognise beauty, value death, increase enjoyment); beauty (incongruous, flighty and elusive - a description of the stars, the burst of flowers in a park); death (a childhood awareness of the finality of time, the meaningfulness of the end); memory (the jewelled quality of literature, pleasure, love, an echo or a scent when aged by the passage of time). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor those who have loved her travel writing, \u003ci\u003ePerseus in the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the motivations behind Freya Stark's journeys and the woman behind the traveller.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tauris Parke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781838601812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Freya Stark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51948734152885,"sku":"9781838601812","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_be98a54c-51d4-44fb-a95e-649124f85464.jpg?v=1762272608","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/perseus-in-the-wind-a-life-of-travel-9781838601812","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}