Reed took little time to diagnose Damascus with a bowed tendon in the same foreleg the colt had injured while training . Reed put Damascus ' left foreleg in a cast and to relieve the colt's discomfort , injected his shoulder with a ...
This new edition has been thoroughly updated using recent scholarship and includes an additional chapter placing the events of the Syrian post-2011 conflict in the context of the city's tumultuousexperiences over the last century.
Damascus, reputed to be the worldʹs oldest continually inhabited city, has enjoyed a history of immense grandeur, enormous political and mercantile power, and great cultural and artistic achievement.
This is the first book in English to relate the history of Damascus, bringing out the crucial role the city has played at many points in the region's past.
Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs and original plans, traces the story of this colourful, significant and complex place through its physical development and provides, for the first time in English, a compelling and unique ...