This new, thoroughly updated third edition remains the only English-language guide dedicated to the smallest country on the Asian continent. Comprehensively updated throughout to reflect economic, political and social changes since the previous edition, it also includes up-to-date and new listings for hotels, restaurants and what to see and do. Bradt's Lebanon offers detailed coverage of areas ignored by other guides as well as more extensive cultural and practical information. New for this edition are specialist features on aspects of Lebanese cultural life, additional background information, extended and revised coverage of the Aammiq Wetlands, new and updated maps, and coverage of the region's first chocolate museum, Choco Story in Beirut. AUTHOR: Paul Doyle is a freelance photographer and travel writer, who first visited Lebanon to undertake a photographic project on the reconstruction of Beirut following the end of the 1975-90 civil war for his final year photography degree project. He was totally absorbed by the country's intoxicating mix of people and the diversity of its geography and heritage and his interest in the region burgeoned. Visits to Egypt, Jordan, Libya and Syria followed, but you rarely forget your first love and he has been a regular visitor to Lebanon since that initial venture in the mid-1990s. His photographs and articles from Lebanon, the region and beyond have appeared in numerous national and international publications.