Book Review: The Hills Of Adonis, by Colin Thubron

This is a great travel memoir of the author’s months-long, exhilarating and perilous journey through Lebanon. Written in 1967, it captures a nostalgic snapshot of a (comparatively) safer, more innocent age, when serious Muslim/Christian conflicts still lay far in the future, and Beirut was called the Paris of the Middle-East. The author doesn’t dwell on ...Continue Reading