Orient Express by John Dos Passos
Work doesn’t permit me to travel half as much as I’d like, but how about another piece of travel literature? This one is from a 1921 trip that took the author from Istanbul to Damascus, by way of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Persia and Mesopotamia (or Iran and Irak, respectively) – and from before the author was made famous by *Manhattan Transfer*. It sounds like a beautiful way to read about a region that nowadays only ever seems to appear in public view together with ’crisis’ or ’war’.
http://www.johndospassos.com/writings/orient-express
First suggested: March 2014
Supporter(s): Uli, Richie, Jessy, Michaela