Beautifully packaged reissue of Colin Thubron's classic which bring the whole of his backlist into Vintage, Â The people, their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy. Â This is the account of a unique journey -- a six-hundred-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island's peace. Colin Thubron intertwines myth, history and personal anecdote in a quest from which the characters and places, architecture and landscape all spring vividly to the reader's eye.