Journey Into Cyprus

Thubron, Colin

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This is the account of a unique journey, a six-hundred-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island’s peace. Colin Thubron intertwines myth, history and personal anecdote in a quest from which the characters and places, architecture and landscape all spring vividly to the reader’s eye.

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Publish Date: 07/06/2012

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Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become divided.

It is at this distinctive time in history British travel writer Colin Thubron embarks on a 600 mile trek across the country. Moving from Greek villages to Turkish towns, the author of Shadow of the Silk Road and Night of Fire provides a profound look into the people of Cyprus – from Orthodox monks to wedding parties to peasant families – against the landscape of a beautiful Mediterranean island on the eve of chaos and tragedy. A remarkable quest rich in literature, classics and architecture, Journey Into Cyprus ingeniously intertwines the history and politics of Cyprus and its mythical past with the tumultuous present – from the master of travel books and writing, Colin Thubron.

‘An accomplished linguist and historian, his passionate concern for antiquity in all its aspects – mythological, architectural, conceptual – lends weight and warmth to every chapter’ Financial Times

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Weight 287 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 25 mm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

397

Language

English

Edition

New Edition

Dewey

915.693044 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K