From an antique land : ancient and modern in the Middle East / Julian Huxley ; with 66 photographs by the author
1955, Fifth Edition. London : Max Parrish. Fine cloth copy in very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443644
Physical description; 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; Introduction -- The land -- Byblos: doorway of many pasts -- Baalbek and the proliferation of divinity -- Lebanon: Phoenician land -- Turkey: past and present -- Modern Jordan and ancient Persia -- Damascus, port of the desert -- Palmyra, the caravan empire -- North Syria and its dead cities -- Baghdad and the twin rivers -- The birth of civilization -- Persia and its blue mosques -- On the banks of the Nile -- Pyramids -- The Egyptian past -- Knossos and the Minoan civilization -- And last -- Both sides of the Jordan rift. Subjects; Huxley, Julian 1887-1975 Travel Middle East. Travel. Middle East Description and travel. Middle East. Middle East Antiquities. Middle East Civilization. Middle East History. Middle East Travel.
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