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Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape Paperback - 2008
by Raja Shehadeh
This exquisitely written book records a sensitive Palestinian writer's love for the landscape of his country. It reflects not only the intense beauty of that landscape, but also some of the terrible dangers that threaten it and its occupants--Rashid Khalidi, author "The Iron Cage."
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- Title Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape
- Author Raja Shehadeh
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Original
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
- Date 2008-06-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9781416569664 / 1416569669
- Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.95 x 5.33 x 0.64 in (20.19 x 13.54 x 1.63 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Ethnic Orientation: Arabic
- Library of Congress subjects Arab-Israeli conflict, Palestine - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007531603
- Dewey Decimal Code 956.953
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- Booklist, 04/01/2008, Page 22
- Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2008, Page 478
- Library Journal, 05/15/2008, Page 122
- LJ Best Books of Year, 12/15/2008, Page 65
- New Yorker (The), 06/09/2008, Page 85
- Publishers Weekly, 03/03/2008, Page 35
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When Raja Shehadeh first started hill walking in Palestine, in the late 1970s, he was not aware that he was traveling through a vanishing landscape. In recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a tense standoff between his fellow Palestinians and settlers newly arrived from Israel. In this original and evocative book, we accompany Raja on six walks taken between 1978 and 2006. The earlier forays are peaceful affairs, allowing our guide to meditate at length on the character of his native land, a terrain of olive trees on terraced hillsides, luxuriant valleys carved by sacred springs, carpets of wild iris and hyacinth and ancient monasteries built more than a thousand years ago. Shehadeh's love for this magical place saturates his renderings of its history and topography. But latterly, as seemingly endless concrete is poured to build…
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