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The history and architecture of Damascus.
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Damascus--A History, by Ross Burns, Routledge, London 2005 (our copy from Palgrave Macmillan, 627 Chapel Street, South Yarra VIC 3141). 386 pp., ill., index. Price: $A 149.00.
The author was the Australian Ambassador to Syria and the Lebanon from 1984-87, and later Ambassador to Israel from 2001-3. In 1993 he published a book on the Monuments of Syria, in which he displayed a sound knowledge of the archaeology and the architecture of the region, as he does in this volume. Most of the illustrations in it are of the architecture of Damascus, both photographs and ...
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