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Varieties of darkness : the world of The English patient / Don Meredith.

Title
Varieties of darkness : the world of The English patient / Don Meredith.
Author
Meredith, Don, 1938-
Publication
Lanham, Md. : Hamilton Books, c2012.

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Description
xii, 226 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
  • Almásy, László, 1895-1951
  • Literary landmarks
  • Setting (Literature)
  • Italy > Description and travel
  • Sahara > Description and travel
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The last medieval war. The painter and the thief -- Michelangelo's bridge -- Via Vecchia Fiesolana -- Horsemen in bronze -- White lion -- Fuorusciti -- The villa -- Queen of Sheba -- Trompe l'oeil -- Sinners in a holy city. Geography manifest -- Garden of sensual delights -- Doppelgangers -- Semiramis -- Masr al-Qadima -- What country? -- Looking for Zerzura. Vascular sizood -- The angle of repose -- Oases -- Major Hamid -- 24th parallel -- Journey to Siwa -- Lions and hyenas -- Tent with calabash -- Brandenburg Brigade -- Drei Burgen -- Wadi Sura -- al-Aqaba -- Looking for Zerzura -- Abu Raml.
ISBN
  • 9780761857228 (cloth)
  • 0761857222 (cloth)
  • 9780761857235 (pbk.)
  • 0761857230 (pbk.)
  • 9780761857242 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
756592518
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library