Record Number: 33578
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Rutba is the palace planted in the wilderness when Aladdin's uncle rubbed the lamp; how else can it have got there? It is 200 empty miles from anywhere. It has beds to sleep in and waiters who spontaneously think of hot water. You walk into a room and dine on salmon mayonnaise and other refinements and read notices on the walls like those of an English club house in the country. The British, returning from summer leave, are all talking shop or shootings and look nice and clean.'
Century:1900-1945
Date:Between 1 Jan 1931 and 31 Dec 1931
Country:Iraq
Timen/a
Place:city: Ar Rutbah
county: Anbar Provice
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:31 Jan 1893
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Travel writer
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:Iraq
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:[notices posted on walls]
Genre:Miscellany / Anthology, miscellaneous notices posted on walls
Form of Text:Manuscript: Sheet, notices on walls
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Source Information:
Record ID:33578
Source:Freya Stark
Editor:n/a
Title:Baghdad Sketches: Journeys through Iraq
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1937
Vol:n/a
Page:4
Additional Comments:
Pagination is from the 2011 IB Tauris edition. The book was first published by John Murray in London in 1937.
Citation:
Freya Stark, Baghdad Sketches: Journeys through Iraq, (London, 1937), p. 4, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33578, accessed: 19 April 2024
Additional Comments:
Dame Freya Madeline Stark, Mrs Perowne, (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993) was a British explorer and travel writer.
