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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 |
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Armenian odyssey |
Description |
xii, 338 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs, map ; 24 cm |
ISBN |
9780618982660 (hardcover) |
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0618982663 (hardcover) |
Utility # |
sky275048477 |
Subjects |
Miskjian, Stepan, 1886-1974.
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MacKeen, Dawn Anahid -- Family.
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MacKeen, Dawn Anahid -- Travel -- Turkey.
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MacKeen, Dawn Anahid -- Travel -- Syria.
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Armenian massacres, 1915-1923.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Armenia.
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Armenian massacres survivors -- Biography.
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Young men -- Armenia -- History -- Biography.
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Escapes -- Armenia -- History -- 20th century.
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Desert survival -- Syria -- History -- 20th century.
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