Molly Izzard

Famous as a twentieth-century explorer and traveller, FS was also a prominent travel-writer, essayist, autobiographer, letter-writer, geographic historian, photo journalist, and cartographer. Reprints of Stark's texts, along with recent biographies by Molly Izzard (1993) and...

As a child FS had little formal schooling. Robert Stark brought up his two daughters as if they were boys, teaching them swimming, riding, and skiing, and encouraging them to love the Devon countryside. He...

Stewart was a member of the Colonial Service with whom Freya had worked closely for a number of years. He was a closet homosexual who faced the fact that it was then considered beneficial for...

FS 's biographer Molly Izzard finds the tone of this book—especially the sections concerning the illicit trip made by Stark and Venetia Buddicom into Syria—often very schoolgirlish.

Within seven months of its initial publication, East is West had been reprinted twice. Calling the text a sensitive and engaging account of the important transactions taking place in Arab lands,Jane Fletcher Geniesse