by Cristina Morató · PLAZA & JANES · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401305412
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«Las damas de Oriente: Grandes viajeras por los países árabes» is the biography book by Cristina Morató published by Plaza & Janés in paperback.
The book brings together the biographies of Western women travelers who, fascinated by the Arab world, left their comfortable lives to explore the Middle East. It features Lady Mary Montagu, Hester Stanhope, Gertrude Bell, Freya Stark and Agatha Christie, in settings such as Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus or Istanbul, among harems, bazaars and deserts.
The work, 432 pages in Spanish, belongs to the collection «Biografías y memorias»; it corresponds to the sixth edition, published in 2005.
For readers of biographies and travel accounts interested in the history of the Middle East and the role of women explorers.
