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The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians

By (author) Philip Marsden

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A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsdenâ€™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. The Crossing Place is Philip Marsdenâ€™s gripping account of his remarkable journey through the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus in a quest to discover the secret of one of the worldâ€™s most extraordinary peoples. Caught between opposing empires, between warring religions and ideologies â€“ at the crossing place of history â€“ the Armenians have somehow survived against the odds. This is their story â€“ told by one of the finest travel writers at work today.