The Hills Of Adonis - A Quest in Lebanon by Colin Thubron
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Overview: This is a great travel memoir of the author’s months-long, exhilarating and perilous journey through Lebanon. Written in 1967, it captures a nostalgic snapshot of a (comparatively) safer, more innocent age, when serious Muslim/Christian conflicts still lay far in the future, and Beirut was called the Paris of the Middle-East. The author doesn’t dwell on the glamorous capital, though – or on any other buzzing urban settlements, for that matter – and instead heads for the hills. His journey takes him through fishing villages and Roman ruins; he visits forgotten Phoenician shrines and stays in a Greek monastery. His journey winds not just through mountains and caves, but also through space and time. Lebanon’s ancient past, the memory of the goddesses that were worshipped there before the advent of Christianity and Islam, is always there, like a VR overlay to the modern landscape.
Thubron’s erudition is really staggering. He can glimpse the vicious struggle between the Greek pursuit of order and the feminine, fecund religions of the East in the design of temple columns. He remembers all the animals that various nations deemed sacred to the goddess Astarte. The writing is so beautiful that you often feel as if you stumbled into a dream.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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Requirements: .PDF reader, 318 MB
Overview: This is a great travel memoir of the author’s months-long, exhilarating and perilous journey through Lebanon. Written in 1967, it captures a nostalgic snapshot of a (comparatively) safer, more innocent age, when serious Muslim/Christian conflicts still lay far in the future, and Beirut was called the Paris of the Middle-East. The author doesn’t dwell on the glamorous capital, though – or on any other buzzing urban settlements, for that matter – and instead heads for the hills. His journey takes him through fishing villages and Roman ruins; he visits forgotten Phoenician shrines and stays in a Greek monastery. His journey winds not just through mountains and caves, but also through space and time. Lebanon’s ancient past, the memory of the goddesses that were worshipped there before the advent of Christianity and Islam, is always there, like a VR overlay to the modern landscape.
Thubron’s erudition is really staggering. He can glimpse the vicious struggle between the Greek pursuit of order and the feminine, fecund religions of the East in the design of temple columns. He remembers all the animals that various nations deemed sacred to the goddess Astarte. The writing is so beautiful that you often feel as if you stumbled into a dream.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
Download Instructions:
https://www32.zippyshare.com/v/8Jx4w29N/file.html
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