The Valley of Lebanon
Author : Helen Saunders Wright
Publisher :
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Country life
ISBN :
Author : Helen Saunders Wright
Publisher :
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Country life
ISBN :
Author : Helen Saunders Wright
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 1916
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Lew Boyd
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Stock car drivers
ISBN : 9780998862569
Author : Paul Doyle
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2023-04-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 178477698X
This new, thoroughly updated third edition of Bradt’s Lebanon remains the only English-language guide dedicated to the smallest country on the Asian continent. Comprehensively updated throughout to reflect recent economic, political and social changes, it includes revised and new listings for hotels, restaurants, and what to see and do, catering for all types of travellers and budgets. Although only half the size of Wales, Lebanon offers extraordinary diversity. Some of the world’s oldest human settlements, including the Phoenician ports of Tyre and Byblos – two of Lebanon’s five World Heritage sites – sit alongside modern Beirut. The absorbing capital is popular for its world-renowned cuisine, eclectic nightlife, mosaic of peoples and kaleidoscope of religions. In Lebanon's second city, Tripoli, busy medieval souks are watched over by a vast Crusader castle. Nearby, snow-capped mountains and the lush Qadisha Valley with its snaking river and waterfalls provide entertainment for skiers and hikers (the latter also well served by the Lebanon Mountain Trail, which runs virtually the length of the country). Three hundred days of sunshine per year makes Lebanon a ‘go anytime’ destination, with the Mediterranean coastline particularly drawing sun-seekers and watersports enthusiasts. Wildlife-lovers can enjoy Shouf Biosphere Reserve (with its famed cedar trees, the national emblem) and the Aammiq Wetlands, while Lebanon has become a major destination for religious tourism, and vinophiles can visit numerous Bekaa Valley wineries of international repute. Bradt's Lebanon offers detailed coverage of areas ignored by other guides, particularly the country’s south, as well as more extensive cultural and practical information. New for this edition are specialist features on aspects of Lebanese cultural life, additional background information, updates on work to rebuild Beirut following the 2020 explosion, extended and revised coverage of the Aammiq Wetlands, new and updated maps, and new visitor attractions including the MIM mineral museum and the Middle East’s first chocolate museum, both in Beirut. With a comprehensive language appendix covering both Arabic and French, detailed historical and religious background that helps visitors travel with awareness and sensitivity, and in-depth travel information, Bradt's Lebanon is an indispensable practical companion to visiting this excitingly varied country.
Author : Lebanon County (Pa.). Regional Planning Commission
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 24,24 MB
Release : 1958*
Category : City planning
ISBN :
Author : Mary Englar
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736867719
This book will answer your questions about Lebanon's geography, government, economy, sports, holidays, food, and arts. Learn about the Bekaa Valley, ski resorts in the mountains, the musical oud, the dabke dance, and much more.
Author : Sean Sheehan
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502626012
Lebanon has a rich, varied, and at times difficult past. This book examines the key aspects of Lebanon life today, history, geography, economy, environment, language, and lifestyle, and discusses the countrys existence in the global community. Full of detailed sidebars, current events, and vivid photographs, this book is sure to entertain and inform any young reader.
Author : Ameen Rihani
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0815655142
When celebrated mahjar writer Ameen Rihani returned to his native Lebanon from his long stay in New York, he set out on nine journeys through the Lebanese countryside, from the rising mountains to the shores of the Mediterranean, to experience and document the land in intimate detail. Through his travelogue The Heart of Lebanon, Rihani brings his readers along by foot and by mule to explore rural villages like his childhood home of Freike, the flora and fauna of massive cedar forests, and archaeological sites that reveal the history of Lebanon. Meeting goatherds, healers, monks, and more along the way, Rihani offers more than vivid descriptions of the country’s sweeping scenery. His candid and often humorous narration captures what he sees as the soul of Lebanon and its people. Allen’s fluid translation transports English-language readers to an early twentieth-century rural Lebanon of the writer’s time in a way that only Rihani’s firsthand account can accomplish.
Author : Suzanne E. Joseph
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,96 MB
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Bedouins
ISBN : 9780813054100
A portrait of a group of Bedouins in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, a population with the highest fertility rate in the world.
Author : Ann Malaspina
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1438105797
A small slice of land wedged on the edge of Asia, Lebanon sits precariously on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. To the west lies Europe, the seat of Christianity and Western culture; to the east lies the Arab world, the heart of Islam. An Arab nation with a government led by Christians since the late 1940s, Lebanon's place on the world map has allowed it to bridge the two worlds, but often at a stiff price. After years of civil war that began in 1976, Lebanon had started to rebuild. Very briefly, the country enjoyed a golden moment of peace, but tensions kept simmering. In 2006, eight Israeli soldiers were killed by Hezbollah, Lebanon's Shiite militia, and in 2007, several political leaders were assassinated during this country's fledgling attempts to achieve stability in a region dominated by turmoil.