The Crossing Place

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Label

The Crossing Place

Statement of responsibility

Philip Marsden

Creator

• trueMarsden, Philip, 1961-
• Marsden, Philip

Subject

• trueArmenians -- History
• trueArmenian genocide survivors
• trueTravel Writing -- Europe
• trueHistory writing -- Middle East -- Nationalism
• trueArmenia
• Lifestyle - Travel
• trueArmenians -- Diaspora
• trueMiddle East -- Description and travel

Genre

• trueTravel Writing
• trueHistory writing

Language

eng

Summary

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. Today, shrunk to a tenth of its former size and wracked by war with Azerbaijan and by earthquakes, its people still retain one of the world's most fascinating and misunderstood cultures. This book is a passionate and dramatic portrait of this country - the people and their massive exodus, as well as of the unique society that remains tentatively attached to the CIS. Travelling from Venice to Istanbul, passing through Eastern Europe, Beirut and Syria, and crossing the Black Sea to the Caucasus and into Armenia, the Philip Marsden takes us on a journey through time and history as we come to know this closed society

Award

Somerset Maugham Award, 1994.

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

915.6620415

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult