Innocence and War : Mark Twain's Holy Land Revisited Paperback / softback
by Ian Strathcarron
Paperback / softback
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Ian Strathcarron follows Mark Twain and his caravanserai as it sways across the Holy Land and the two writers' contrasting adventures and observations are told in Innocence and War.
Twain's pilgrims landed in Beirut and went on to Baalbec and Damascus.
They then headed south through the Golan Heights, the Galilee and Nazareth then finally on to Jerusalem, Jericho, the Dead Sea, Bethlehem and Jaffa.
Strathcarron follows their exact route though the countries are now Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the West Bank-with diplomatic diversions by sea on the writer's yacht Vasco da Gama, where needed.
Together they meet the tribes and tribulations of the Holy Land, where the religious is political and the political is religious, where natural beauty meets man-made squalor, where hope and despair hang from the same tree and where trouble is always close at hand.
Travel was troublesome then and it is troublesome now.
Troublemakers and troubleshooters vie for supremacy.
Both protagonists suffer for their troubles-and only sometimes laugh it off.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Signal Books Ltd
- Publication Date:19/12/2011
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- ISBN:9781908493019
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Signal Books Ltd
- Publication Date:19/12/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781908493019