Beautifully packaged reissue of Colin Thubron's classic which bring the whole of his backlist into Vintage,
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The people, their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy.
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This is the account of a unique journey -- a six-hundred-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island's peace. Colin Thubron intertwines myth, history and personal anecdote in a quest from which the characters and places, architecture and landscape all spring vividly to the reader's eye.