prokhorovaolga

I love reading about the worlds of the Mediterranean and Theroux does not disappoint. Travel writing allows me to go places I've never been, and places I have been, just seen through different eyes. My only criticism about this book is in the description his travels promised in the title and preface: the Mediterranean, from one pillar of Hercules (in Gibraltar) to the other (in Morocco). Much time and space is given to the West (Spain, France, Italy, Greece), moderate time to the East (Turkey, Syria, Israel), and little time to Africa west of Egypt - a broad swath of land. (Thank the pagan gods he covered Alexandria.) Tripoli? Casablanca? Fez? Algiers? Two small chapters seems too little in a book of over 400 pages. My primary interest was to read about the Arab part of the African continent. Oh well, a good read nevertheless.

2023-02-27 06:20