As the airliner banked westward over the Lebanon mountain range seeking the approaches to Beirut’s airport, we caught a glimpse of dark, wooded patches on the higher mountain slopes and valleys, all that’s left, a fellow passenger explained, of what were once the ‘Cedars of God’. So hoary were those cedar forests, he said, that […]
The Cedars of God: Crown of the Lebanon
As the airliner banked westward over the Lebanon mountain range seeking the approaches to Beirut’s airport, we caught a glimpse of dark, wooded patches on the higher mountain slopes and valleys, all that’s left, a fellow passenger explained, of what were once the ‘Cedars of God’. So hoary were those cedar forests, he said, that […]