Rick Antonson

Full Moon Over Noah's Ark

An Odyssey to Mount Ararat and Beyond. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,1 cm / 15,5 cm / 3,8 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 408 Seiten
EAN 9781510705654
Veröffentlicht April 2016
Verlag/Hersteller Skyhorse Publishing

Auch erhältlich als:

eBook (epub)
16,80
23,50 inkl. MwSt.
Teilen
Beschreibung

"Acclaimed travel writer Rick Antonson sets his adventurous compass on Mount Ararat, exploring the region's long history, religious mysteries, and complex politics. Mount Ararat is the most fabled mountain in the world. For millennia this massif in eastern Turkey has been rumored as the resting place of Noah's Ark following the Great Flood. But it also plays a significant role in the longstanding conflict between Turkey and Armenia. Author Rick Antonson joined a five-member expedition to the mountain's nearly 17,000-foot summit, trekking alongside a contingent of Armenians, for whom Mount Ararat is the stolen symbol of their country. Antonson weaves vivid historical anecdote with unexpected travel vignettes, whether tracing earlier mountaineering attempts on the peak, recounting the genocide of Armenians and its unresolved debate, or depicting the Kurds' ambitions for their own nation's borders, which some say should include Mount Ararat. What unfolds in Full Moon Over Noah's Ark is one man's odyssey, a tale told through many stories. Starting with the flooding of the Black Sea in 5500 BCE, through to the Epic of Gilgamesh and the contrasting narratives of the Great Flood known to followers of the Judaic, Christian and Islamic religions, Full Moon Over Noah's Ark takes readers along with Antonson through the shadows and broad landscapes of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Armenia, shedding light on a troubled but fascinating area of the world"--

Portrait

Rick Antonson is the author of Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street, To Timbuktu for a Haircut: A Journey Through West Africa, Full Moon Over Noah's Ark: An Odyssey to Mount Ararat, and Walking With Ghosts in Papua New Guinea: Crossing the Kokoda Trail in the Last Wild Place on Earth. Rick is a past chair of Destination International, based in Washington, D.C. and past deputy chair of the Pacific Asia Travel Association based in Bangkok, and the former president and CEO of Tourism Vancouver. He and his wife Janice live in Predator Ridge in Canada’s Okanagan Valley.

Hersteller
Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1

DE - 36244 Bad Hersfeld

E-Mail: gpsr@libri.de

Das könnte Sie auch interessieren

Liz Moore
Der Gott des Waldes
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
14,99
Lenz Koppelstätter
Am Hang des Todes
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Lucinda Riley
Die Perlenschwester
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
11,99
Henning Sußebach
Anna oder: Was von einem Leben bleibt
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
19,99
Uwe Wittstock
Marseille 1940
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
19,99
Liz Moore
Long Bright River
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
13,99
Alfred Lansing
635 Tage im Eis
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
11,99
Lucinda Riley
Die Mitternachtsrose
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
4,99
Rachel Joyce
Miss Bensons Reise
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Arundhati Roy
Der Gott der kleinen Dinge
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Timothy Snyder
Über Tyrannei
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Cilla Börjlind
Schlaflied
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
11,99
Delia Owens
Der Ruf der Kalahari
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Sylvain Tesson
Auf versunkenen Wegen
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Norbert Frei
Konrad Adenauer
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
25,99
Marie-Janine Calic
Balkan-Odyssee, 1933-1941
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
23,99
Salman Rushdie
Mitternachtskinder
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
10,99
Victor Lodato
Honey
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
17,99
Uwe Wittstock
Februar 33
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
11,99
Liane Moriarty
Neun Fremde
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Graeme Simsion
Das Rosie-Projekt
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
8,99
Martin Schulze Wessel
Die übersehene Nation
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
23,99
Martin Klauka
Einmal mit der Katze um die halbe Welt
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
19,99
Timothy Snyder
Über Tyrannei
eBook (pdf)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
16,99
Uwe Neumahr
Die Buchhandlung der Exilanten
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
22,99
Marlo Morgan
Traumfänger
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
3,99
Sylvain Tesson
Der Schneeleopard
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Der Mitternachtspalast
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
8,99
Rohinton Mistry
Das Gleichgewicht der Welt
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
12,99
Bernd Greiner
Weißglut
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
27,99
Elizabeth von Arnim
Die Reisegesellschaft
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
13,99
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Chris Broad
Abroad in Japan
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Carlo Levi
Die doppelte Nacht
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
9,99
Sylvain Tesson
Moskau - Beresina - Paris
eBook (epub)
Sofort lieferbar (Download)
10,99