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If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.

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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Essayist
Explorer
Mountaineer
Photographer
Travel Writer
Traveler
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Paris
France
Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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Eastern
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every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
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