Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean | Rare and modern books | Mansel Philip
Rare and modern books
Mansel Philip
Hodder & Stoughton General Division (29 settembre 2011),
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean | Rare and modern books | Mansel Philip
Rare and modern books
Mansel Philip
Hodder & Stoughton General Division (29 settembre 2011),
28.00 €
(Roma,
Italy)
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Details
- Author
- Mansel Philip
- Publishers
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division (29 settembre 2011)
- Keyword
- Turchia Turkey Turquie
- Binding description
- S
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- As New
- Binding
- Softcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
br. ed. 480pp. Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom. Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to their decline in the mid twentieth century. Smyrna was burnt; Alexandria Egyptianised; Beirut lacerated by civil war.
