The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence—free of the network of dead speech.

Freya Stark

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Wilderness Solitude Silence

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stark, Freya. Perseus in the Wind. John Murray, 1948, ch. 1.

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