The Crossing Place
Subtitle: A Journey among the Armenians
Publisher: Flamingo
Published: May 9, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780006376675
First sentence: One summer, walking in the hills of Eastern Turkey, I came across a short piece of bone.
Description: 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 Marsden’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 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. This is their story – told by one of the finest travel writers at work today.
Notes: Winner of the 1994 Somerset Maugham Award