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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.
Freya Stark
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Freya Stark
Age: 100 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 31
Died: 1993
Died: May 9
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Dame Freya Madeline Stark
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