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Ararat
In Search of the Mythical Mountain
EPUB
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ISBN-13:
9781407019512
Veröffentl:
2008
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
240
Autor:
Frank Westerman
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Frank Westerman, geb. 1964, studierte Hydrotechnologie an der Landwirtschaftlichen Universität Wageningen. Er beschäftigte sich mit russischer Literatur und den Thesen Wittfogels über die Ursprünge des orientalischen Despotismus und arbeitete als Entwicklungshelfer bzw. freier Journalist u.a. in Kamerun, Kuba, Mexiko, Sierra Leone und im ehemaligen Jugoslawien. Von 1997 bis 2000 war er als Korrespondent in Moskau für die große niederländische Abendzeitung NRC Handelsblad tätig.
Mount Ararat in Turkey is where, as biblical tradition has it, Noah's Ark ran aground and God made his covenant with mankind. Now it stands astride the fault-line between religion and science, a geographical, political and cultural crossroads, bound up with the centuries-old history of warfare between different cultures in this region. Frank Westerman takes a pilgrimage from the mountain's foot to its highest slopes, meeting along the way geologists, priests and an expedition in search of the Ark's remains, as well as a Russian astronaut who observes that 'there is something between heaven and earth about which we humans know nothing'. Ararat is a dazzling, highly personal book about science, religion and all that lies between, by one of Europe's most celebrated young writers.
Mount Ararat in Turkey is where, as biblical tradition has it, Noah's Ark ran aground and God made his covenant with mankind. Now it stands astride the fault-line between religion and science, a geographical, political and cultural crossroads, bound up with the centuries-old history of warfare between different cultures in this region. Frank Westerman takes a pilgrimage from the mountain's foot to its highest slopes, meeting along the way geologists, priests and an expedition in search of the Ark's remains, as well as a Russian astronaut who observes that 'there is something between heaven and earth about which we humans know nothing'. Ararat is a dazzling, highly personal book about science, religion and all that lies between, by one of Europe's most celebrated young writers.