The Resource A tourist in the Arab Spring, by Tom Chesshyre
A tourist in the Arab Spring, by Tom Chesshyre
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- Summary
- A fascinating street-level account of a lay traveller's journey through lands fresh from revolution. This is humorous, uplifting travel writing with an edgy touch.
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- 1 Tunis and Sidi Bouzid: Cigarette Smugglers and Hitchhiking Heroes 1 2 Sidi Bouzid and Garaat Bennour: It Started with a Fruit Seller 12 3 El Jem and Kairouan: Mosques, Marvels and a Near Miss 31 4 Tunis and Carthage: Tanks in the Capital 47 5 Djerba: Lost with the Lotus-eaters 63 6 R'as Ajdir and Tripoli: Tap, Tap, Tap into the Night 80 7 Leptis Magna: There is a Tourist? 99 8 Sabratha and Tripoli: In Brother Leader's Old Bunker 118 9 Benghazi, Cyrene and Qasr al-Haj: Trouble and Tea 138 10 Cairo: Salafists on Tahrir Square 160 11 Cairo, Saqqara and Giza: Pharaohs, Camels and a Yacoubian Building 179 12 Suez and Sharm el-Sheikh: To a Dismal but Profitable Ditch. and on 201 13 Sharm el-Sheikh, Taba and St Catherine's Monastery: Smile: you are in Egypt 220 Acknowledgements 243 Bibliography 244
- Isbn
- 9781841624754
- Label
- A tourist in the Arab Spring
- Title
- A tourist in the Arab Spring
- Statement of responsibility
- by Tom Chesshyre
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A fascinating street-level account of a lay traveller's journey through lands fresh from revolution. This is humorous, uplifting travel writing with an edgy touch.
- Cataloging source
- StDuBDS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chesshyre, Tom
- Dewey number
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- 915.60454
- 915.6'0454
- 915.60454
- 915.60454
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- DS49.7
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Chesshyre, Tom
- Arab Spring, 2010-
- Egypt
- Libya
- Tunisia
- Travel writing
- Middle East
- Middle East
- Travel and Tourism
- Summary expansion
- In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, war reporters rushed to publish accounts of the uprising. Tom Chesshyre took a different approach - he jumped on a plane and became the first to return to the region as a tourist. The result is the fascinating, street-level tale of a lay traveller's journey through lands fresh from revolution. Chesshyre heads for tourist sites that few have seen in recent years, as well as new 'attractions' like Gaddafi's bombed-out bunker in Tripoli. In a book both touching and humorous, he also describes being abducted in Libya, listening to the sound of Kalashnikovs at night and talking to ordinary people struggling to get by. Extract from the introduction... 'I was travelling as a tourist, not as a foreign correspondent with a well-thumbed contacts book and a series of appointments. I would take the temperature of the region during a key period in its history - as a casual visitor. I would see what there was to see as a traveller with a guidebook. Yet by talking to people along the way, I'd get a sense of the bigger picture. That was my hope, at least. Being a tourist would be my way of unlocking the countries. I would take in the wonderful Byzantine ruins of Tunisia, the famous Roman remains in Libya, and the treasures of the pharaohs in Egypt, plus some lovely beaches in the Sinai Peninsula. What would I find out about the Arab Spring as I pottered among the ancient sights? What does an Arab Spring feel like?'
- Label
- A tourist in the Arab Spring, by Tom Chesshyre
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1 Tunis and Sidi Bouzid: Cigarette Smugglers and Hitchhiking Heroes 1 2 Sidi Bouzid and Garaat Bennour: It Started with a Fruit Seller 12 3 El Jem and Kairouan: Mosques, Marvels and a Near Miss 31 4 Tunis and Carthage: Tanks in the Capital 47 5 Djerba: Lost with the Lotus-eaters 63 6 R'as Ajdir and Tripoli: Tap, Tap, Tap into the Night 80 7 Leptis Magna: There is a Tourist? 99 8 Sabratha and Tripoli: In Brother Leader's Old Bunker 118 9 Benghazi, Cyrene and Qasr al-Haj: Trouble and Tea 138 10 Cairo: Salafists on Tahrir Square 160 11 Cairo, Saqqara and Giza: Pharaohs, Camels and a Yacoubian Building 179 12 Suez and Sharm el-Sheikh: To a Dismal but Profitable Ditch. and on 201 13 Sharm el-Sheikh, Taba and St Catherine's Monastery: Smile: you are in Egypt 220 Acknowledgements 243 Bibliography 244
- Control code
- BDZ0020762418
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- viii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781841624754
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (colour), map (black and white)
- Label
- A tourist in the Arab Spring, by Tom Chesshyre
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1 Tunis and Sidi Bouzid: Cigarette Smugglers and Hitchhiking Heroes 1 2 Sidi Bouzid and Garaat Bennour: It Started with a Fruit Seller 12 3 El Jem and Kairouan: Mosques, Marvels and a Near Miss 31 4 Tunis and Carthage: Tanks in the Capital 47 5 Djerba: Lost with the Lotus-eaters 63 6 R'as Ajdir and Tripoli: Tap, Tap, Tap into the Night 80 7 Leptis Magna: There is a Tourist? 99 8 Sabratha and Tripoli: In Brother Leader's Old Bunker 118 9 Benghazi, Cyrene and Qasr al-Haj: Trouble and Tea 138 10 Cairo: Salafists on Tahrir Square 160 11 Cairo, Saqqara and Giza: Pharaohs, Camels and a Yacoubian Building 179 12 Suez and Sharm el-Sheikh: To a Dismal but Profitable Ditch. and on 201 13 Sharm el-Sheikh, Taba and St Catherine's Monastery: Smile: you are in Egypt 220 Acknowledgements 243 Bibliography 244
- Control code
- BDZ0020762418
- Dimensions
- 20 cm
- Extent
- viii, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781841624754
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations (colour), map (black and white)
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