PHILIP MARSDEN
The Crossing Place
A Journey among the Armenians
William Collins
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 1993
Copyright © Philip Marsden 1993
Preface and postscript copyright © Philip Marsden 2015
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Cover photograph: Turkey / Armenia: Armenian refugees fleeing
Turkish massacres, Anatolia, 1915 © Bridgeman Art Library
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The wind is singing, the leaves of the mulberry-tree are shuffling.
Eternal song; eternal life; eternal death; eternal sorrow; and eternal joy…
Vahan Totovents, Scenes from an Armenian Childhood,
(Trans. Mischa Kudian)
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