{"product_id":"freya-stark-perseus-in-the-wind","title":"Perseus in the Wind","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Freya Stark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":47273110208564,"sku":"9781838601812","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/0320\/4404\/files\/9781838601812_cfl.jpg?v=1763743132","url":"https:\/\/wanderingalbatrossbooks.com\/products\/freya-stark-perseus-in-the-wind","provider":"Wandering Albatross Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}