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Freya Stark

1893 - 1993

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Dame Freya Madeline Stark (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Freya Stark has received more than 379,641 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Freya Stark is the 254th most popular explorer (up from 275th in 2019), the 3,014th most popular biography from France (up from 3,039th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Explorer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Freya Stark ranks 254 out of 405. Before her are William Parry, Anthony Jenkinson, Nicolas Baudin, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, Pehr Osbeck, and Carl Peters. After her are Karl Weyprecht, Estêvão Gomes, Paweł Strzelecki, Eusebio Kino, Roy Chapman Andrews, and Ippolito Rosellini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Freya Stark ranks 130. Before her are Frederick William Franz, Archduke Leo Karl of Austria, Vera Kholodnaya, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Paul van Zeeland, and Ba Maw. After her are Donald Lippincott, Vicente Huidobro, Heinrich George, Ralph Linton, José María Velasco Ibarra, and Johannes Dieckmann. Among people deceased in 1993, Freya Stark ranks 102. Before her are Anna Sten, Józef Czapski, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, Euronymous, Felice Borel, and Godfrey Chitalu. After her are Chishū Ryū, Henry Hazlitt, Mario Evaristo, Joseph Serchuk, Blaže Koneski, and Yulian Semyonov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Freya Stark ranks 3,014 out of 6,011. Before her are Ingelger (900), Roger Walkowiak (1927), Hervé Bazin (1911), Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Jean Wahl (1888), and Édouard Chavannes (1865). After her are Roger Piantoni (1931), Jean-Delphin Alard (1815), Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944), E. D. Morel (1873), Pierre Omidyar (1967), and Irène Jacob (1966).

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Among EXPLORERS In France

Among explorers born in France, Freya Stark ranks 27. Before her are René Caillié (1799), Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867), Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658), Francis Garnier (1839), and Nicolas Baudin (1754). After her are Pierre Poivre (1719), Édouard-Alfred Martel (1859), Henri Duveyrier (1840), Étienne Brûlé (1592), Louis de Freycinet (1779), and Jacques Labillardière (1755).

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