Orient Express: A Travel Memoir

Synopsis

Before john dos passos enjoys fame as a chronicler and critic of american society, he wins recognition for command of aesthetics. Orient express, a memoir of the author’s travels through eastern europe, the near east, and the middle east, focuses on sights, sounds, and smells rather than plot or character. Dos passos applies his instincts as a painter to mountain ranges and grimy alleyways, finding beauty everywhere. His tour extends from tiflis, georgia, to erivan, armenia, and marrakesh, morocco; from kasvin, iran, to baghdad, iraq, and damascus, syria.