Ebook: Mirror to Damascus
Author: Thubron Colin
- Tags: Historic sites, Historic sites--Syria--Damascus, Travel, Travel writing, Thubron Colin -- 1939- -- Travel -- Syria -- Damascus, Thubron Colin -- 1939-, Historic sites -- Syria -- Damascus, Damascus (Syria) -- Description and travel, Syria -- Damascus
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Year: 1967
- Publisher: Random House
- City: Damascus (Syria);Syria;Damascus
- Language: English
- epub
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.
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