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The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians
Philip Marsden
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Description for The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians
Paperback. A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden's classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUR; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 220.
A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden’s classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres.
After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded a civilization and underwent a diaspora that brought many of the great ideas of the East to Western Europe.
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Caught between opposing empires, between warring religions and ideologies – at the crossing place of history – the Armenians have somehow survived against the odds. This is their story – told by one of the finest travel writers at work today.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008127435
SKU
V9780008127435
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99-2
About Philip Marsden
Philip Marsden is the author of The Bronski House, The Spirit-Wrestlers (winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book of the Year Award), The Chains of Heaven, The Barefoot Emperor, The Levelling Sea and Rising Ground. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in ... Read more
Reviews for The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians
‘A stylish and beautifully written elegy to a lost civilisation….The Crossing Place is about loss and exile, and its pages are full of displaced communities and tenaciously maintained traditions, strange discoveries and odd conversations, all illuminated with brilliant flashes of esoteric learning’ William Dalrymple, Spectator ‘Marsden's fine and ... Read more