Bethlehem: Biography of a Town [Audiobook] download free by Nicholas Blincoe
- Listen audiobook: Bethlehem: Biography of a Town
- Author: Nicholas Blincoe
- Release date: 2017/9/20
- Publisher: AVALON PUBLISHING GROUP
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781568585833
- Rating: 9.11 of 10
- Votes: 72
- Review by: Johnathan French
- Review rating: 8.61 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/18
- Duration: 3H25M11S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-21
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG4, MP3, TTA, FLAC, AAC, WAV, OGG (compression RAR, TAR.XZ, ZIP, CHM, GZ, TAR)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 23 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M19S (4.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning-some ancient, some mythical, some religious-that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. Today, the city is hemmed in by a wall and surrounded by forty-one Israeli settlements and hostile settlers and soldiers. The population is undergoing such enormous strains it is close to falling apart. Any town with an eleven-thousand-year history has to be robust, but Bethlehem may soon go the way of Salonica or Constantinople: the physical site might survive, but the long thread winding back to the ancient past will have snapped, and the city risks losing everything that makes it unique.Still, for many, Bethlehem remains the 'little town' of the Christmas song. Nicholas Blincoe will tell the history of the famous little town, through the visceral experience of living there, taking readers through its stone streets and desert wadis, its monasteries, aqueducts and orchards, showing the city from every angle and era. Inevitably, a portrait of Bethlehem will shed light on one of the world's most intractable political problems. Bethlehem is a much-loved Palestinian city, a source of pride and wealth but also a beacon of co-existence in a region where hopelessness, poverty and violence has become the norm. Bethlehem could light the way to a better future, but if the city is lost then the chances of an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict will be lost with it.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, Places & Peoples: Pictorial Works, Cultural Studies, Middle Eastern History, History: Earliest Times To Present Day
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 29.37 USD
- Dimensions: 156x240x27.94mm
- Weight: 476.27g
- Printed by: Nation Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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