Mirror to Damascus - Softcover

Thubron, Colin

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140245464 ISBN 13: 9780140245462

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

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This is a book describing the historical sights that await the traveller of Damascus. The author, Colin Thubron, has built up a following with his travel writing on places in the world least understood by people.

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Review:

"One of the oldest, most mysterious and fascinating cities in the world has found a worthy biographer: a rare event and one not to be missed" (Sunday Times)

"One of the most subtly beautiful books about a city I have ever read" (Jan Morris)

"Colin Thubron writes in a classical style of grave beauty, with an intense feeling for place and people" (New York Times)

"From the earliest legend to the latest coup, Mirror to Damascus reflects every discoverable facet of the city... a quite exceptional travel writer" (Daily Telegraph)

"One of the great merits of Mr Thubron's admirable book is that he balances this tribute to a place of which he is clearly very fond with the harsh facts of history... he was always moved by the best motives - curiosity and affection" (The Times)

Book Description:

A 50th anniversary edition of Colin Thubron's celebrated first book, a portrait of Syria's capital city, with a new introduction by the author

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