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Places in Syria: A Pocket Grand Tour
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Author
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Francis Russell.
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Publisher
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Frances Lincoln
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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6.7
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4.8
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0.7
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ISBN
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9780711231665
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Pages/Publication Date
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255/2011
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Daedalus Item Code
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23611
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$24.95
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$3.98
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Description
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Despite Syria's recent upheavals, the country has a history of civilization stretching back thousands of years, with many significant archaeological sites. This book by Francis Russell (a deputy chairman at Christie's, with a 40-year career in antiquities at the auction house) tours 57 places in Syria, traveling from the walled city of Damascus, with its mosques and museums, to Krak des Chevaliers, a superb example of a medieval castle. Along the way he visits Palmyra, one of the great classical sites of the Near East; the monastery of St. Simeon, at the heart of the series of "dead cities" of Byzantine times; and Hama and its famous nourias, the wooden wheels that raise water from the river.
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