| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Armchair Traveller |
| Contents |
Intro -- halftitle -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The Flood -- Russia -- The beginnings of a bridge -- Hotel Fortuna -- Pasha the Turk -- Greek wine -- Horseless Cossacks -- A Black Sea lexicon, entry no. 1: Rapana venosa -- A Caucasian without a moustache -- Georgia -- The thieves of Poti -- A Black Sea lexicon, entry no. 2: Engraulis encrasilocus -- Swimming trees -- Abkhazia -- A long story -- The monkeys of Sukhum -- The return of the Circassians -- Turkey -- Fırtına the falcon -- An icon falls from the sky -- The love story of Gabi and Yusuf |
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Amazon island -- Atatürk's eyes -- In the wake of the Argo -- A Black Sea lexicon, entry no. 3: Bosporus -- Bulgaria -- The renamed -- Frogmen -- The Sozopol vampire -- A Black Sea lexicon, entry no. 4: Hydrogen sulphide -- Romania -- The wrong horse -- Ovid's last metamorphosis -- The Black Danube -- Ukraine -- The spring at Kyrnychky -- A coincidence in Odessa -- Antelopes on the steppe -- A Black Sea lexicon, entry no. 5: Mnemiopsis leidyi -- Crimea -- Tracks in the snow -- Today we, tomorrow you -- The love story of Alla and Vladimir -- The end of a bridge -- The Ark -- Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
A history of the countries bordering the Black Sea told through the stories of the people who live there. Fringing the Black Sea is a diverse array of countries, some centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Jens Mühling travels through this region, telling the stories of people he meets along the way in order to paint a picture of the mix of cultures found here and to understand the present against a history stretching back to the arrival of Ancient Greek settlers and beyond. A fluent Russian speaker with a knack for gaining the trust of those he meets, Mühling brings together a cast of characters as diverse as the stories he hears, all of whom are willing to tell him their complex, contradictory, and often fantastical tales full of grief and legend. He meets descendants of the so-called Pontic Greeks, whom Stalin deported to Central Asia and who have now returned; Circassians who fled to Syria a century ago and whose great-great-grandchildren have returned to Abkhazia; and members of ethnic minorities like the Georgian Mingrelians or Bulgarian Muslims, expelled to Turkey in the summer of 1989. Mühling captures the region's uneasy alliance of tradition and modernity and the diverse humanity of those who live there |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
TRAVEL / General
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Travel
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| SUBJECT |
Black Sea -- Description and travel
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| Subject |
Black Sea
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mühling, Jens
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| ISBN |
9781909961777 |
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1909961779 |
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