Freya Stark was an Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer. Her father was British. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan. She was one of the first non-Arabs to travel through the southern Arabian Desert. In 1934, Stark sailed down the Red Sea to Aden ...

Title and date devised by Library staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2020.0007, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26064819, BIB-ID: 2745933

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 150., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0050, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2195172x, BIB-ID: 2346462

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 144., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0044, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21951196, BIB-ID: 2346401

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate n. 44 in the Atlas accompanying the text of the Duke de Luynes, "Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte" (Exploration of the Dead Sea) published in Paris by Arthus Bertrand in 1874., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2018.0001-0002, 2-D Graphic, Item-I ...

Title date devised by Library staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2018.0264-0006, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i25413521, BIB-ID: 2710754

John Beasley Greene was the first Egyptologist who was also a photographer. This print is from his second trip to Upper Egypt to excavate the Mortuary Temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu and Thebes in Luxor. Greene’s photographs of Egypt emphasize the scale of the sky and the landscape, as if to ...

Title and date devised by Library staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0056, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24467558, BIB-ID: 2537239

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 160., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0060, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953570, BIB-ID: 2346530

Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 159., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0059, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21953533, BIB-ID: 2346529

The central miniature depicting Mecca with the Kaaba at the center, is laid down on pink card with a red and gold floral lattice., Title and date devised by Library staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.GM.2017M.0001, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i25594400, BIB-ID: 2719443