©TélécHArGEr. The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians Livre. audio par William Collins

After centuries of domination 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

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The Crossing Place somewhat bypasses the two mainstays of Armenian-related writing: Ararat and the Genocide. Actually, it transpired during the interview that the thought of climbing Mount Ararat did occur to him - more for the dramatic effect it would give the story, but "It's a book about people and there are no Armenians on Ararat. [It] is a mountain to be looked at, rather than climbed." He also grappled with "the great shadow" of 1915, but there is too much beyond

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 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 between opposing empires, between warring religions and