From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Aged 100.   
   Grew up in Italy. English father, multiethnic mother.   
   Child of unhappy marriage, suffered a disfiguring injury age 13.   
   BUT   
   She received a copy of One Thousand and One Nights for her ninth   
   birthday. Could already read French, taught herself Latin. Eventually   
   went to London (Bedford College, SOAS) to study languages. "Her   
   professor suggested Icelandic, but she chose to study Arabic and later,   
   Persian."   
   Became celebrated for her writings (and photographs) from her travels in   
   the Middle East, often to areas little known to the British public.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_Stark   
      
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