The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians (Kodansha Globe) - Softcover

Marsden, Philip

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9781568360522: The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians (Kodansha Globe)

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ISBN 10: 1568360525 ISBN 13: 9781568360522

Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1995

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Describes the history and culture of the Armenians.

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Review:

‘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 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 Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph

‘A terrific travel book’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

‘A wonderful journey recounted with knowledge, humour and a beautiful, elegiac sadness’ Observer

‘An extraordinary travel narrative ... As a history of the Armenian spirit in the twentieth century, this is possibly the most important book in decades’ TLS

‘He has gone into a world that remains closed to most outsiders and brought back wonderful pictures’ Independent

‘The way Marsden uncovers the traditions and secrets of these people from right under Europe’s nose is enthralling’ Sunday Times

From the Back Cover:

'The Crossing Place' is the account of a remarkable journey through the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, a quest to discover the secret of one of the world's most extraordinary peoples. Caught between opening empires, between warring religions and ideologies – at the crossing place of history – the Armenians have somehow survived against the odds.

"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 unpredictability's of real travel."
NOEL MALCOM, 'Sunday Telegraph'

"One of the best young travel writers in search of the elusive, enigmatic Armenians... A wonderful journey recounted with knowledge, humour and a beautiful, elegiac sadness"
NICHOLAS WOLLASTON, 'Observer'

"As a history of the Armenian spirit in the twentieth century, this is possibly the most important book in decades. At the same time it is an extraordinary travel narrative."
TLS

"The way Marsden uncovers the traditions and secrets of these people from right under Europe's nose is enthralling"
SUNDAY TIMES

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