Books, Travel, Asia, Armenia

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Richard Plunkett, Tom Masters
Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan (Lonely Planet Travel Guides)
by Lonely Planet (Paperback)

Hike in the stunning Caucasus Mountains, bathe in the Black Sea, explore lush, church-studded hills, laze on the shores of Lake Sevan and enjoy generous local hospitality. Connect with the diverse cultures and wide-ranging landscapes of the South Caucasus in this, the only guide to cover the region. • UNRAVEL THE PAST - extensive coverage of the region's fascinating history and mosaic of cultures • PLAN YOUR ROUTE with the help of tempting highlights and itineraries and over 40 detailed maps • SLEEP SOUNDLY - wide-ranging listings from welcoming homestays to Soviet sanatoriums • ENJOY fine wines from Georgia and tasty Armenian cognac with our enticing food & drink sections • TALK THE TALK - impress the locals in all three languages using our expert guide

Matthew Karanian; Robert Kurkjian
Armenia & Karabagh (The Stone Garden Guide)
by Stone Garden Productions (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-09-01)

This book from Stone Garden Guides is unique as the largest and most colorful guidebook available for Armenia and Karabagh. Its 304 pages are filled with 75 vibrant color photographs, and 25 detailed color maps. This is also the only travel book on Armenia that is truly an "insider’s guide." This is because its authors, Matthew Karanian and Robert Kurkjian, have each lived, worked, and traveled throughout the region for a decade. The text—which is written in a conversational tone that’s easy to read—is also comprehensive and filled with the wisdom of travelers who are as comfortable in Armenia as they are when traveling back home in the US. Visitors will find that this book is essential gear when traveling throughout Armenia and Karabagh, in the villages as well as in the cities. This guide will help travelers make the best choices when deciding where to go, what to see, and where to eat and sleep. Short term visitors who don’t speak Armenian will be able to ...

Stina Katchadourian, Efronia Katchadourian
Efronia: An Armenian Love Story
by Gomidas Institute Books (Paperback)

Efronia Katchadourian was born in 1894 to a Christian Armenian family living in the Ottoman Empire. In her late eighties, she finally wrote the long-secret story of her ill-fated youthful love for a Persian Moslem during the era of the Armenian genocide. Her daughter-in-law Stina introduces the memoir and interweaves an affectionate narrative that brings together the historical, biographical, and cultural elements of her indomitable mother-in-law's tumultuous world.

Nicholas Holding
Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide
by Bradt Travel Guides (Paperback)

This guide is still the only one in English to offer comprehensive information on travel in Armenia, a destination well worth visiting in its own right. This rural retreat enjoys an astonishingly well-preserved legacy of monastic buildings, often set in magnificent locations. Nicholas Holding covers a wide spectrum of activities that give Armenia a huge potential for visitors, including birding, hiking, the arts, architectural tours, botanical trips, angling, horseriding, and caving. Features include: *A variety of sections with strong appeal to visitors: architecture, wildlife, religion, and culture*Vital practical details on visas, red tape, land border crossings, health, and safety, plus useful words and phrases*Full and half-day excursions from the capital, Yerevan*The territory of Nagorno Karabagh  

Roland W. Hardt
Travel Map of Armenia and Azerbaijan (Travel Reference Map)
by Itmb Publications Inc (Map)

Scale 1:650,000. Printed on one side. With inset maps of regional ethnography, Baku and Yerevan cities, and Baku and surrounding region. Detailed map of the countries with portions of Georgia; Russian Federation. Legend locates cities and smaller settlements; roads from international highways to unpaved tracks. Also airports and airfields; railways; ferry routes; canals, rivers, reservoirs, and other hydrographic features; mosques and other places of worship; historic landmarks; nature reserves; mountain passes (including height and months open).

Ruy González de Clavijo
Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy González de Clavijo to the Court of Timour, at Samarcand, A.D. 1403-6
by Adamant Media Corporation (Paperback) (Release Date: 2001-08-16)

Translated by Clements R. Markham. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1859 edition by the Hakluyt Society, London.

Philip Marsden
The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians (Kodansha Globe)
by Kodansha Amer Inc (Paperback)

Robert H. Hewsen
Armenia: A Historical Atlas
by University Of Chicago Press (Hardcover)

From its conversion to Christianity to the Genocide during World War I, from the Soviet occupation to its recent independence, Armenia has seen a long and often turbulent history. In the magnificent Armenia: A Historical Atlas, Robert H. Hewsen traces Armenia's rich past from ancient times to the present day through more than two hundred full-color maps packed with information about physical geography, demography, and sociopolitical, religious, cultural, and linguistic history.Hewsen has divided the maps into five sections, each of which begins with a chronology of important dates and a historical introduction to the period. Specialized maps include Ptolemy's second-century map of Armenia, as well as maps of Roman, Cilician, Ottoman, tsarist, and Soviet Armenia. Other maps show the Persian khanate of Erevan, the Caucasian campaigns of World War I, the Armenian Genocide, the Armenian monuments in Turkey and Transcaucasia, the worldwide diaspora, ground plans of selected cities, ...

GiziMap (Firm)
Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia Map
by Maplink (Map)

This two-sided, folded map covers the Caucasus region of Asia in excellent detail at a scale of 1:1,000,000 (1" to 16 miles). The fully indexed map covers Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, southern section of Russia, and northern sections of Turkey and Iran. With beautifully detailed cartography this map uses color tinting to indicate relief and also displays numerous elevation point indicators. The map shows roads and railways, rivers and lakes, parks, beaches, distances, airports, ferries, state and local administrative boundaries, monuments, archaeological sites, and tourist sites. Legend in English, German, French, Italian and Russian. Index on the reverse side of map.

Grigo Chyukyurian
English Armenian; Armenian English Dictionary: A Dictionary of The Armenian Language
by Simon Wallenburg Press (Paperback)

Acclaimed by Armenian Academics, this Wallenberg Dictionary has led the way in bilingual lexicography for many years. It has proven to be a reliable dictionary for both English and Armenian speakers, in language schools in modern Armenia. The new edition is expanded with over 650 pages of definitions making this dictionary a comprehensive authority on the Armenian language. True to form, Simon Wallenberg's editors have carried forward Grigo Chyukyurian's work and have lived up to their tradition of creating some of the most widely used and respected dictionaries and reference books in the world. Definitions continue to be organized around the "core" meanings that is, "the one that represents the most literal use that the word has in ordinary modern Armenian usage. The dictionary is ideal for person looking for a quick answer while on a business trip as well for journalists and writers for whom it makes the perfect desktop companion. Language is now studied in the context ...

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