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Journey Into Cyprus Paperback – International Edition, July 9, 2012

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Beautifully packaged reissue of Colin Thubron's classic which bring the whole of his backlist into Vintage,
 
The people, their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy.
 
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.
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COLIN THUBRON is an acknowledged master of travel writing, and the winner of many prizes and awards. His first writing was about the Middle East -- Damascus, Lebanon and Cyprus. In 1982 he travelled into the Soviet Union in an ancient Morris Marina, pursued by the KGB, a journey he recorded in Among the Russians. From these early experiences developed his classic travel books: Behind the Wall(winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Award), The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia(Prix Bouvier) and Shadow of the Silk Road(all available in Vintage). In 2010 Colin Thubron became President the Royal Society of Literature.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage Books (July 9, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0099570254
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0099570257
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 1 x 7.75 inches
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Sergio D.
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book on a long-lost island
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2013
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My interest in this book was due to my being a young boy in Cyprus - although a foreigner - at the same time that the author was taking his long trek through the island. Cyprus was a wonderful place to be then, full of interesting things to see and experience, and intensely beautiful. Thubron describes it all in a masterful and profoundly evocative way. Although memories have faded, I can remember some of the places he writes about, and well recognize the atmosphere. He has taken it to the limit, going places where foreigners would not normally go and experiencing the island in a rather extreme way. He is at his best in a great tribute to a beautiful island, layered with cultures, histories, landscapes. I left on a RAF Hercules in 1974, as Turkey was busy invading the island, and never went back. I am sure I would never recognize the place now and know it has changed for the worse. As Thubron comments in hindsight, he has visited Cyprus in its heyday.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Cyprus before division
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2021
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I like to read travel writers. Used book but in good shape. No complaints on my part.
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Robin Buxton
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2015
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Not his best but interesting. A little dated to give an up to date description of present day Cyprus
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Martina A. Nicolls
3.0 out of 5 stars Trekking through ancient history
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2018
Journey into Cyprus is the memoir of Colin Thubron’s 600-mile (966-kilometre) walking trek in Cyprus in 1972 – before the country was divided into two – Greek Cyprus and Turkish Cyprus.

Before the Turkish invasion in 1974, Thubron traversed the island of Cyprus mingling with the Greek Cypriots and the Turkish Cypriots in their villages, enjoying their hospitality, but feeling the growing tension. There were no borders, and people lived side by side.

Cyprus has been ruled by the Assyrians, Phoenicians, Persians, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans and Byzantines from the ancient world. The Middle Ages saw the invasions of the Crusaders, Lusignans, the Genoese and the Venetians. In recent times, the Ottomans and the British ruled Cyprus.

But separation not yet happened when British travel writer Colin Thubron (1939-) went for a long walk – which makes this an interesting read in hindsight.

He dedicates a whole chapter to the copper mines – still in operation during his walk (they closed in 1978). And he writes of the ancient ruins around the island, such as the Amathous ruins dating to 11th century BC. Mostly though, rather than being a conventional travelogue, it is an account of the island with all of its Greek mythology and ancient history.
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Mary
5.0 out of 5 stars Viaggio dell'anima e della mente
Reviewed in Italy on October 29, 2022
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Ho ritrovato l'isola del mio cuore e altro ancora in un testo significativo dalla scrittura scorrevole che accende l'immaginazione e il ricordo
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M.Pandeli
5.0 out of 5 stars Journey into Cyprus.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2013
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A real gem of a book. One cannot help admiring the way he tested his classical knowledge and his ability to take the reader with him as he travels on foot, mostly, and meets local people with who he has the ability to communicate at a significant level. Thubron is a master of observation and a refreshing writer way beyond the casual travel writer. His use of language is so masterful he deserves to occupy a high position among gifted language writers. Anyone with interest in literature should read this book
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Marand
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to the history of Cyprus for tourists
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2015
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I read this during our recent holiday to Cyprus. It was written in 1972 before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and therefore the Cyprus that Thubron walked through has in many respects disappeared with the division of the island. You are aware of times changing, old customs dying out. We weren't staying far from Kouklia in southern Cyprus and it was sad to read that it had been "an optimistic community, in which Greek and Turk still lived together" - sadly no more and it made it all the more poignant when we came across abandoned mosques: I doubt I would have noticed but for reading the book. There were more prosaic descriptions of changing times - for example "Women wearing short skirts chatted to grandmothers whose ankles had been a fiercely guarded mystery for more than half a century ...". It is odd to think that there is now luxury hotel full of British tourists close to where the first EOKA ambush against the British army took place.

We found the book useful also in fleshing out our guide books at various sites of antiquity. Thubron has a wide knowledge of the history of the area, and the myths and legends of the Levant which enhanced our understanding of the places we visited.
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Jaime-Axel Ruiz
5.0 out of 5 stars Good to remember in these times what Cyprus was
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2013
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Far away from the finance and banking disaster, the journey of Thubron is a perfect introduction for someone who does not know what was Cyprus, the struggle of this divided milenary island. Thibron's approach, as always in his books , is human, real and not at all condescendent. And full of cultural and historic references that help the reader without being preposterous at all.
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The Margrave
2.0 out of 5 stars Not a useful introduction to Cyprus.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2016
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This is not a book from which to gain an understanding of Cyprus. It is overwritten, with a false tone, that too often plays to the gallery. A typical example is the description of the archaeological sites in Paphos,which give little sense of the place, but spends two pages describing the author slithering along an ancient drain and looking up the skirt of an elderly English tourist, who gasps when she peers down and sees his eye through the drain cover. That illustrates another problem, that so many of his descriptions of people or incidents are caricatures: the philosophising gnarled old farmer: the drunken peasants at a wedding feast; the silent old widows with slack mouths and watery eyes; the English tourist. It was possibly his first book so its weaknesses can be forgiven, but be aware if you want an introduction to Cyprus.
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