Dust in the Lion’s Paw – Autobiography 1939-1946 –

“In 1939 when war broke out, Dame Freya Stark was already established as a great traveller and writer. her knowledge of the Middle East and her genius for friendship made her ideally suited to the task of influencing public opinion for the Allied cause.

Interspersed with letters dealing with her private feelings and preoccupations – Freya Stark faced her share of danger during the siege of the British embassy at Baghdad – Dust in the Lion’s Paw is her fourth volume of autobiography, a unique memoir of seven years spent in distant and dangerous lands.”