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Described by the author as simply 'a work of love', Reflection to Damascus has an enthralling and amazing history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the trend of 1966, as well as being a enchanting and witty personal record of an city well-loved. In detailing how modern Damascus is rooted in immemorial layers of culture and tradition, Colin Thubron explores the historical, creative, social and religious inheritance of the Damascenes in an amusing and perceptive manner, whilst interspersing the narrative with innumerable anecdotes about tourists of bygone days and nights. Reflection to Damascus is a distinctive portrait of an city now obscured by recent upheavals, by one of the very most indefatigable and popular of travel authors.