Freya Stark

Dame Freya Stark DBE
Portrait by Herbert Arnould Olivier (1923), National Portrait Gallery, London
Born	(1893-01-31)31 January 1893 Paris, French Third Republic
Died	9 May 1993(1993-05-09) (aged 100) Asolo, Veneto, Italy
Nationality	British, Italian
Occupation(s)	Explorer, travel writer

Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993) was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer. She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays. She was one of the first non-Arabs known to travel through the southern Arabian Desert in modern times.