Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean
Cyprus as its own place rather than a beach, a conflict, or somebody else's strategic asset.
Alex Christofi, whose family is Cypriot, travels the island and writes its history through the layers left by everyone who took it: Greeks, Romans, Crusaders, Venetians, Ottomans and the British, up to the division that still runs across it. Part travelogue, part family memoir, and the book to take if you are going.
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Tyler Cowen
Alex Christofi has written Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean, which is the book I will take to Cyprus when I go there.
Source · May 2024
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