Armenia’s Absence from Freya Stark’s “Riding the Tigris”

The extent to which the Armenians and their cultural heritage disappeared from contemporary historical consciousness  is shown by the fact that in 1959—only 44 years after the Armenian Genocide—the  famous and open-minded English travel writer/spy Freya Stark could describe Van and Diyarbakir region without ever using the word ‘Armenian’ in her book (“Riding the Tigris”).

The extent to which the Armenians and their cultural heritage disappeared from contemporary historical consciousness  is shown by the fact that in 1959—only 44 years after the Armenian Genocide—the  famous and open-minded English travel writer/spy Freya Stark could describe Van and Diyarbakir region without ever using the word ‘Armenian’ in her book (“Riding the Tigris”).