Mike Robbins's Blog - Posts Tagged "syria"

Remembering Aleppo: I wrote this piece about Aleppo, Syria, exactly two years ago. I later included it in The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places, which was published a year later. But it was originally intended as a blog post. I lived for years kin Aleppo and wanted to tell people that it was not an anonymous flashpoint on the evening news, but one of the most ancient and extraordinary places on earth. I'm glad I didn't know that, two years on, things in Aleppo (and Syria in general) would be even worse.

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Amazon's elegant widget
"Delighted that Amazon has finally devised an efficient widget for sending long blog posts to Kindle. I've just been testing it on my own blog and it works really well, both for Kindle Paperwhite and for the Kindle app on my tablet. I've now put it on all the longer posts, including this piece of nostalgia about Syria. Would be interested if someone could see how well it works on the Kindle app for iPad.

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Of all the cities in the world, I had to choose New York City in which to ride out this pandemic. I cannot say I am not worried, but this city will survive, as it has before; and I feel oddly privileged to be here.

Whatever happens, I have had an extraordinary life. My work has taken me to the Amazonian rainforest, the steppes of Central Asia, the ancient souk (now partly destroyed) of Aleppo and the plains of Sudan. I've watched the sun rise on the snows of Kanchenjunga, and seen great herds of yak in the high Himalayas. In 2014 I wrote some of it down in The Nine Horizons: Travels in Sundry Places.

Like all writers, I would like it to be read. So I have made it a free download, and will keep it that way for some days. There is a choice of formats (link below).

I will get through this, as will most of us, but if by mischance I don't, it would be nice to think that some of you have read this, and travelled with me.

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