Hello Lebanon, A guide for the enquiring traveller
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2000
الناشر: المكتبة الشرقية
نبذة الناشر:The powerful attraction of Lebanon has never failed, despite her strange situation between two cultures, torn between East and West, despite having been seduced and abondoned, despite her culture both unique and nulti-faceted, despite her history bathed in blood and tears. Still in the throes of postwar reconstruction, Lebanon is ...already eager to regain her legendary reputation for hospitality and welcome back all those facinated by history, archeology and natural beauty.
The Lebanon may not be a large country in terms of surface area, but there are few other countries which can claim such diversity and contrast in a small space.
More than conventional tourist guide, this book is the result of several visits to the country itself, encounters with its inhabitants and interviews with leading personalities, extensive reading and a search for the sound and fury, the savours, hopes and colours which each phrase and picture reveals.
It is the fervent hope of authors Marc Altea and Edith Soonckindt that, like all those Lebanese exiles scattered over the globe, you will read this book and understand that Lebanon is much more country, it is a way of thinking, an ever-present reality in the heart to be carried with you always, wherever you may go… إقرأ المزيد