Book Review: A Tourist in the Arab Spring

TRAVELLING on the edge. This sums up this wonderful and compelling book.

A year after the first uprisings of the Arab Spring, author Tom Chesshyre jumped on a plane and travelled as a tourist across Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

And his book is testament to the adventures he enjoyed, from tracking down the spot where a now famous fruit seller martyred himself to visiting forgotten Greek and Roman ruins and falling asleep to the sound of gunfire.

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The well written book gives wonderful accounts of impromptu discussions with the people Tom meets from preachers and smugglers to bullet miners and rebel soldiers.

Tom was inspired by those who gave so much for a future that hangs in the balance and his book is dedicated to their bravery.

A Tourist in the Arab Spring by Tom Chesshyre, £9.99, published by www.bradtguides.com

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