Mirror to Damascus /
By: Thubron, Colin
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915.60454 GL TR The tribes triumphant : return journey to the Middle East / | 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. |
Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1967. Includes bibliography and index.
Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', "Mirror to Damascus" provides an enthralling and fascinating history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966, as well a being a charming and witty personal record of a city well-loved. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemoriable layers of culture and tradition, Colin Thubron explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes in an amusing and perceptive manner, whilst interspersing the narrative with innumerable anecdotes about travellers of bygone days. "Mirror to Damascus" is a unique portrait of a city now obscured by recent upheavals, by one of the most indefatigable and popular of travel writers.