Full name: The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians

Author: Philip Marsden Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780006376675 9780008127435 0006376673 0008127433

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. Similar books: The Spirit-Wrestlers by Philip Marsden In Europe by Geert Mak Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane Cities of Gold by Douglas Preston South with Endurance by Frank Hurley The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester Amsterdam by Russell Shorto A Traveller in Rome by H. V. Morton Voices of the Old Sea by Norman Lewis Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton Looking for the Lost by Alan Booth Goodnight, Mister Lenin by Tiziano Terzani Korea by Daniel Tudor The Big Roads by Earl Swift The Road from the Past by Ina Caro Landfalls by Tim Mackintosh-Smith South from Granada by Gerald Brenan Travels with a Tangerine by Tim Mackintosh-Smith Wild Coast by John Gimlette