Colin Thubron

Mirror To Damascus

50th Anniversary Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides the history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966. In explaining how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture and tradition, the author explores the historical, artistic, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9780099532293
• ISBN-10: 0099532298
• Artikelnr.: 24701239

Autorenporträt

Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road. His most recent book is To a Mountain in Tibet (all available in Vintage). Colin Thubron was President of the Royal Society of Literature from 2010 to 2017.