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In 1909, at the age of twenty-one, T. E. Lawrence undertook a nearly 1,800-kilometer trek through the Middle East to visit thirty-five crusader fortresses for his doctoral thesis at Oxford. In 2017, more than a century later, Jean Rolin retraces his route and travels to Beaufort Castle, in southern Lebanon, to the Krak des Chevaliers, in Syria, to the Kerak fortress, in Jordan. This tour is the perfect pretext for one of today's most important French reporters to reflect on how time has changed the area - a recurring scene of armed conflicts - and confront us with the vagaries of history. With insatiable curiosity and a bomb-proof sense of humor, Rolin gets a close look at an extraordinary and turbulent territory and, at the same time, a fabulous literary tale.

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Jean Rolin had an atypical and multicultural childhood that has defined him as a writer and that sparked his interest in ethnographic research and cultural diversity. His rebellious spirit and his fondness for travel are reflected in an extensive opus, composed of articles, essays, chronicles, reports and novels, written from all over the world, in which he recounts his experiences and denounces injustices and the disappearance of societies and cultures.

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