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    The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
    The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
    The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey

    Written by Dawn Anahid MacKeen

    Narrated by Neil Shah and Emily Woo Zeller

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    In the heart of the Ottoman Empire as World War I rages, Stepan Miskjian's world becomes undone. He is separated from his family as they are swept up in the government's mass deportation of Armenians into internment camps. Gradually realizing the unthinkable-that they are all being driven to their deaths-he fights, through starvation and thirst, not to lose hope. Just before killing squads slaughter his caravan during a forced desert march, Stepan manages to escape, making a perilous six-day trek to the Euphrates River. In his desperate bid for survival, Stepan dons disguises, outmaneuvers gendarmes, and, when he least expects it, encounters the miraculous kindness of strangers.

    The Hundred-Year Walk alternates between Stepan's saga and another journey that takes place a century later, after his family discovers his long-lost journals. Reading this rare firsthand account, his granddaughter Dawn MacKeen finds herself first drawn into the colorful bazaars before the war and then into the horrors Stepan later endured. Inspired to retrace his steps, she sets out alone to Turkey and Syria, shadowing her resourceful, resilient grandfather across a landscape still rife with tension.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 8, 2016
    ISBN9781515973218

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      As WWI begins in earnest, Turkey has a dirty little secret going on in the background. Thousands of Armenians are being arrested and deported to internment camps. And we all know what those lead to. The author's grandfather, Stepan, realizes that he needs to fight or escape to avoid death. He does both, depending on his strength, wits, and the kindness of strangers to survive. Almost a hundred years later, journalist Dawn MacKeen discovers the incredible story as recorded in his journals and decides to visit Turkey and Syria to meet some of the people who helped save her grandfather's life. She has her own perilous journey which makes an exciting read on its own. Coupled with Stepan's escape, this book brings the historical facts of the inhumanity and injustice perpetrated on the Christian Armenians beginning around 1915 to light. The Turks are still unwilling to admit their part in this atrocity to this day. I recommend this book to those who like their nonfiction brought to life with passion and truth about a little known period in history.