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1472128435
Book The downhill hiking club: a short walk across the Lebanon; Dom Joly
Year: 2021
Language: English
Type: Book
Class Number: 915.69204453
Publisher: Constable, 2021
Physical or Electronic: Physical
ISBN: 9781472128430
Notes:
Dom Joly was born in Beirut and lived there until he was 18. He lived through the civil war, went to school with Osama Bin Laden, and learned to ski and speak French and Arabic. At the age of seven he was sent to an English boarding school, where he would spend term times before returning to his war-torn home. It was a schizophrenic existence. Dom's parents divorced when he was 18 and he moved permanently to the UK, becoming a diplomat, a political journalist and then famous as a man who dressed as a giant squirrel. He has only been back to Lebanon twice since. Then he read about an attempt to encourage tourism in this long-suffering country. The Lebanon Mountain Trail.
Extent: 320 pages, 20 cm, pbk
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