The Crossing Place - A journey among Armenians
‘A fascinating journey,a lone and absorbing quest for what stubbornly survives a holocaust – a people, a landscape, a language, a religious vision’
D.M. Thomas
‘An interest, then an obsession, then a quest – and eventually a book, The Crossing Place, in which Marsden’s fine and unostentatious travel writing is criss-crossed with traces of politics and cultural history … This is a beautifully written book, with enough incident and observation to convey the unpredictabilities of real travel’
Noel Malcoln, Sunday Telegraph
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Author - Auteur - հեղինակ | |
Date - Datum - տարեթիվ | |
Language - Langue - Taal - Լեզու | |
Place - Lieu - Plaats - Տարածաշրջան | |
Pages - Paginas - Էջեր | 248 |
Publisher - Editeur - Editor - Խմբագիր | |
Quantity Books | 1 |
One summer, walking in the hills of eastern Turkey, I came across a short piece of bone. It was lodged in the rubble of a landslip and had clearly been there for many years. Irubbed its chalky surface and examined the worn bulbs of the joint I took it to be the limb of some domestic animal and dropped it into my pocket.
‘A fascinating journey,a lone and absorbing quest for what stubbornly survives a holocaust – a people, a landscape, a language, a religious vision’
D.M. Thomas
‘An interest, then an obsession, then a quest – and eventually a book, The Crossing Place, in which Marsden’s fine and unostentatious travel writing is criss-crossed with traces of politics and cultural history … This is a beautifully written book, with enough incident and observation to convey the unpredictabilities of real travel’
Noel Malcoln, Sunday Telegraph
The Crossing Place is the account of a re arkable journey through the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Caucasus, a quest to discover the secret of one of the world’s most extraordinary peoples.
Caught between opposing empires, between warring religions and ideologies – at the crossing place of history – the Armenians have somehow survived against the odds.