The hills of Adonis : a journey in Lebanon.
By: Thubron, Colin
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915.60454 WE TE 10 tips for leading in the Middle East | 915.6104412 SW TU Turkey / | 915.691 TH MI Mirror to Damascus / | 915.692044 TH HI The hills of Adonis : a journey in Lebanon. | 915.693044 BU ES Essential Cyprus | 915.6950444 JO RD Jordan. | 915.80443 TH SH Shadow of the Silk Road / |
Previous ed.: London : Heinemann, 1968. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ostensibly this is a book about Lebanon, finely written and deeply felt - not the Lebanon which a Beirut businessman would recognize, but a coastline of small historic ports and a littoral of beautiful mountains. In this country, the ruins of Phoenician, Greek and Roman are among the most impressive in the world. Crusader castles and Arab palaces stand together in the hills, and the people are a unique medley of races and religions.For five hundred miles the author walked through the mountains, following tracks and rivers. His journey was not only a survey of a remarkable country, but a quest for the divinities of the region - Astarte and Adonis, who held the secrets of death and rebirth in the ancient cults of Lebanon. He visited almost every place of cultural importance, and lived with the people along his way, recording strange remnants left over from the religion of Baalim and high places. So "The Hills of Adonis" is both a travel book and a personal journal; for the quest, in its last analysis is the search for meaning, a reflection on faith and reason and a poem on the joy and complexity of living.