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Title The Hundred-year walk : an Armenian odyssey

Author MacKeen, Dawn Anahid.
Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]
©2016.
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 Lansing-2nd Floor-Non-Fiction  956.6201 MacKeen      AVAILABLE
 South Lansing-Non-Fiction  956.6201 MacKeen      AVAILABLE

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Part One. Before. The Lost World ; Empty Plans ; Countdown ; Alphabet City -- Part Two. The Exile. Breaking Stones ; People We Don't Mention ; Following Orders ; Under the Black Tree ; Night Train ; The Interior ; Infidel Mountains -- Part Three. Red River. ; Headscarf ; Dreams Traded for Bread ; The Bath ; Water's Course ; The Dead Zone ; Hell ; Welcome to Syria ; Desert's End ; My Shadow ; Tell the World ; The Sandstorm -- Part Four. Refuge. Betrayal ; The Church ; The Sheikh ; Two Hamuds ; Crossroads ; The Feast ; Home ; One Family -- Epilogue: Weddings and anniversaries.
Summary Growing up, Dawn MacKeen heard fragments of her grandfather Stepan's story, of how he was swept up in the deadly mass deportation of Armenians during World War I and of how he miraculously managed to escape. Longing for a fuller picture of Stepan's life--and the lost home her family fled--Dawn travels alone to Turkey and Syria using his journals as a guide. She reconstructs her grandfather's odyssey to the far reaches of the Ottoman Empire, where he found himself in the midst of unspeakable atrocities. Part reportage, part memoir, The Hundred-Year Walk alternates between Stepan's tale of resilience and Dawn's remarkable journey, giving us a rare firsthand account of the twentieth century's first genocide. Filled with edge-of-your-seat escapes and accounts of lifesaving kindnesses in the harsh desert where Dawn finds the secret to Stepan's survival.
Other Titles 100-year walk
Armenian odyssey
Description xii, 338 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs, map ; 24 cm
ISBN 9780618982660 (hardcover)
0618982663 (hardcover)
Utility # sky275048477
Subjects Miskjian, Stepan, 1886-1974.
MacKeen, Dawn Anahid -- Family.
MacKeen, Dawn Anahid -- Travel -- Turkey.
MacKeen, Dawn Anahid -- Travel -- Syria.
Armenian massacres, 1915-1923.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Armenia.
Armenian massacres survivors -- Biography.
Young men -- Armenia -- History -- Biography.
Escapes -- Armenia -- History -- 20th century.
Desert survival -- Syria -- History -- 20th century.