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The dune's twisted edge : journeys in the Levant /

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"Part travelogue, part literary criticism, this book brings together six interlinked essays that probe the physical, cultural, and imaginative geography of the eastern seaboard of the Levant and its deserts. Its essay evolves out of the author's own travels through a certain region: the Ju...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levin, Gabriel, 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Essays.
Middle Eastern poetry.
Middle East > Description and travel.
Middle Easterners.
Travel.
Middle East.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : all things Levantine
  • Seeking a poetics of the Fertile Crescent
  • Hezekiah's tunnel
  • Who keened over the bones of dead encampments
  • Attir
  • Notes from Wadi Rumm
  • Galilean centos.