Colin Thubron

Chapter One ACROSS WHITE RUSSIAIhad been afraid of Russia ever since I could remem-ber. When I was a boy its mass dominated the map which covered the classroom wall; it was tinted a wan green, I recall, and was distorted by Mercator's projection so that its tundras suffocated half the world. Where...

Preface This four-month walk through the mountains and coasts of Lebanon describes a world irrecoverably gone. Already in 1967 the country's fragile unity was showing strain, and some were saying that the survival of its delicately balanced government into the 1970s would be a miracle. Yet in...