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description: It was an unique journey - a 600 mile trek on foot around Cyprus, in the last year of the island's peace. Colin Thubron writes about it and with great immediacy, intertwining myth, history and personal anecdote. What emerges is a tapestry from which characters and places, architectures and landscape all spring vividly to life.As a guide to the island and its survival through centuries of turmoil, JOURNEY INTO CYPRUS is invaluable. As a fine narrative of travel, it is compelling."Thubron worked hard to know Cyprus. He is a sympathetic observer, but also a candid one. He never lets sentiment or expectation get in the way of truth." (Daily Telegraph)
language: English
title: Journey into Cyprus
titlecomplete: Journey into Cyprus
characters: Isaac Komnenos, Emperor of Cyprus, Eleanor of Aragon, Henry II of Cyprus, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily, Peter I of Cyprus, Grigoris Afxentiou, Berengaria of Navarre, H. Rider Haggard, Digenes Akritas, Saint Barnabas, Richard I of England, Marco Antonio Bragadin, Lala Mustapha Pasha, Aphrodite (Greek Goddess)
genres: Travelogue, Greece, Nonfiction, Travel, History
ratings_count: 278
places: Cyprus
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd