Syria
Subtitle: Through Writers' Eyes (Through Writer's Eyes)
Publisher: Eland
Published: December 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780907871842
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Travel writing; Travel - Foreign; Travel; Syria; Essays & Travelogues; Middle East - General; Description and travel; In literature
Description: Poet, travel-writer and antiquarian book-dealer Marius Kociejowski has poured his deep love, experience and absorption with Syria into this wide-ranging but discriminating collection of diverse writers' perspectives on Syria. Here you will eavesdrop on William Dalrymple talking to hermits, hear Robin Fedden on Crusader Castles, follow T E Lawrence through Aleppo as well as reading the thoughts of Edward Gibbon, Hester Stanhope and Gertrude Bell amongst the ruins of Palmyra, et al.