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Uide and on a shoestring budget Stark writes engagingly of the nomadic peoples who inhabit the region's valleys and brings to life the stories of the ancient kingdoms of the Middle East including that of the Lords of Alamut a band of hashish eating terrorists whose stronghold in the Elburz Mountains St Solitude I reflected is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adeuate reco
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The Valleys of the AssassinsArk was the first to document for the Royal Geographical Society Her account is at once a highly readable travel narrative and a richly drawn sympathetic portrait of a people told from their own compelling point of view This edition includes a new Introduction by Jane Fletcher Geniesse Stark's biograph This has been on the go for a while unusually but it is very good and really interesting