Orient Express

DOS PASSOS, Don

Editore: U.K / Jonathan Cape, 1928

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This is part of the 'Travellers Library' series of books, number 80. / This is the authors a memoirs of his travels through Eastern Europe, the Near East, and the Middle East, focuses on sights, sounds, and smells rather than plot or character. Dos Passos applies his instincts as a painter to mountain ranges and grimy alleyways, finding beauty everywhere. His tour extends from Tiflis, Georgia, to Erivan, Armenia, and Marrakesh, Morocco; from Kasvin, Iran, to Baghdad, Iraq, and Damascus, Syria. He crosses the Syrian Desert, observes the aftermath of the Greek-Turkish War, climbs the Caucasus, explores Persia during the rise of Reza Kahn, and records the creation of Iraq by the British. / This is a British 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket in good condition-the dustjacket is a little scratched&the spine slightly faded. (224 pages & 30 pages of book advertisments). Originally published in the U.S.A in 1927.

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• Titolo: Orient Express
• Editore: U.K / Jonathan Cape
• Data di pubblicazione: 1928
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • CLASSIC LITERATURE