The Hills of Adonis
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The Hills of Adonis
Narrated by:
Jonathan Keeble
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Keeble
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Colin Thubron
About this listen
For four months and 500 miles, Colin Thubron walked the mountains of Lebanon, following tracks and rivers. His journey was not only a survey of a remarkable country but a quest for the gods and divinities who held the secrets of death and rebirth in the land's ancient cults.
He visited almost every place of cultural importance and lived with the people along his way, recording a country of outstanding natural scenery, rich with a unique medley of races and religions.
The Hills of Adonis is both a travel book and a personal journal, for the quest is the search for meaning, a reflection on faith and reason and a poem on the joy and complexity of living.
©1968 Colin Thubron (P)2017 Isis Publishing LtdWarm encounters with local people contrast with the tense political backdrop of the time, his travels interrupted at one point by the Six-Day War. This event momentarily changes our perspective on the historical picture he describes with exceptional knowledge and insight. It embraces archaeology, anthropology, architecture, theology, classical art and literature, and much besides,
Thubron’s prose is some of the most learned, beautifully expressive, and exquisitely measured of all travel and history writing, expertly narrated here by Jonathan Keeble.
Having read all his post-Middle East travel books, I would recommend these later works equally as highly. It has been very timely, though, visiting his earliest books on Audible, where the vast cultural and political dimensions of Middle Eastern history provide an essential lens through which to view the present.
Exceptional narrative of travel and history
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