Gloria Libani

For five thousand years, the narrow strip of coast between the white peaks of Lebanon and the deep Mediterranean has served as the hinge of human progress. Gloria Libani takes you on a journey through the unbroken thread of the Levantine spirit, revealing how a people of the horizon transformed the sea into the world's first global economy.

From the purple-stained hands of ancient chemists to the scholars who stripped away the complexity of writing to give the world the alphabet, this book...