Description
Colin Thubron's early masterwork of travel writing—following his journey through Lebanon before the Civil War destroyed the country he describes—is a haunting, beautifully written account of a culture and a landscape that no longer exist in the form he encountered them, making this book simultaneously a work of literary travel writing of the highest order and an irreplaceable historical document. Written with the lyrical precision and the genuine cultural depth that have made Thubron the finest travel writer of his generation, this is essential reading for every admirer of his extraordinary body of work and every person interested in the Lebanon that was.
