Cleopatra's Wedding Present: Travels through Syria (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)
by Robert Tewdwr Moss
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0299192903
- ISBN 13
- 9780299192907
- Seller
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About This Item
University of Wisconsin Press, 2003-09-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. University of Wisconsin Press [Published date: 2003]. Hard cover, 245 pp. First Edition, with full number line. Very good in very good dust jacket. Brown paper over boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to edges and corners of covers and Light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality Brodart cover. NOT Ex-Library. No remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] Cleopatraââ¬â¢s Wedding Present is the rare book that captivates its reader from the first page. Like the best travel books, Robert Tewdwr Mossââ¬â¢s memoir of his travels through Syria resonates on many levels: as a profoundly telling vivisection of Middle Eastern society, a chilling history of ethnic crimes, a picaresque adventure story, a purely entertaining travelogue, and a poignant romance. Tewdwr Moss, a brilliant young writer who was murdered in London the day after he finished this book, left this lyrical gem as his legacy. He adeptly captures an essence of the Middle East that is foreign to most of us, but which becomes real with his astute observations of the regionââ¬â¢s culture and explosive politics. He conveys what so many westerners find both fascinating and frightening in the Middle East, making no attempt to mask circumstances that are appalling and dangerous while also exotic, beautiful, and sometimes very funny. Mesopotamia, now present-day Syria, was part of Mark Anthonyââ¬â¢s love gift to Cleopatra. Then and now, it is a land of mystery and love.
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- Bookseller
- Epilonian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20170826005
- Title
- Cleopatra's Wedding Present: Travels through Syria (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)
- Author
- Robert Tewdwr Moss
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0299192903
- ISBN 13
- 9780299192907
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Place of Publication
- Madison, Wis
- Date Published
- 2003-09-01
- LCCN
- 2003050103
- Keywords
- Travel, Middle East, Memoir, Gay Interest
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