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Journey Into Cyprus

Journey Into Cyprus

by Colin Thubron (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

    $15.62
Synopsis

The people, their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy. 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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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 416
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Jun 2012
ISBN 10: 0099570254
ISBN 13: 9780099570257
Book Overview: 'He is the most admirable of guides, deeply versed in the rich history and archaeology of the island, delighting in the legends' - Sunday Telegraph

Media Reviews
Thubron writes very well indeed... He carries with him the talisman of erudition combined with intuition * Sunday Times *
Thubron knows the real Cypriots... He evinces a never unsympathetic observation and a respect for the incongruous that put him in the category of Kinglake and Edward Lear * Daily Telegraph *
Purchased by blistered and bleeding feet, this picture is extraordinarily detailed and vivid... 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 *
Colin Thubron is in a class of his own * Scotsman *
Most memorable and full of insight * Lawrence Durrell *
Author Bio
Colin Thubron is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East - Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall (winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia (Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road (all available in Vintage). In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature.