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A Beirut Anthology: Travel Writing through the Centuries

Edited by T. J. Gorton

Cairo/New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2015

Pp. 158

Mostly, one thinks of Beirut as ultra-modern, but writer, translator and photographer T. J. Gorton adopts a historical perspective by selecting passages from travel writing about the city that stretch back 2,000 years. Short texts by 30 different observers reflect the constants as well as the changes that have characterised Beirut from Roman... Читать дальше...

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