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World premiere book launch for Armenia's first Travel Guide on February 21
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13:54 16.02.2013
Matthew Karanian and Robert Kurkjian will present their book, Armenia
and Karabakh: The Stone Garden Travel Guide, and will be on hand for a
talk and book signing on February 21, at the Consulate General of
Armenia in Los Angeles.
The event is the world premiere launch for the new edition of the
book, which is Armenia's best-selling travel guide. This third edition
was published this week and contains 320 pages illustrated with 150
color photographs and 30 detailed maps. A never-before published map
of historic Armenia, which was created shortly after the Genocide, is
also featured in the book.
The Stone Garden Travel Guide is the only guidebook for the region
that emphasizes conservation and ecology. The book is also the only
photo-based guide to Armenia.
Karanian and Kurkjian have each spent nearly two decades living and
working in Armenia while researching and writing this and previous
editions of the book. Each of them first traveled to Armenia in 1995
to work as professors at the AmericanUniversity of Armenia. Karanian
is an attorney, and he served as Associate Dean of the law program.
Kurkjian is an environmental scientist, and he was Director of the
university's Environmental Conservation and ResearchCenter. The book
is illustrated with color maps produced by AUA's Birds of Armenia
Project.
Their writing and photography about Armenia has also been featured in
magazines and newspapers of wide distribution in the US, Europe, and
Canada, including in CNN Traveller magazine, Geographical, Photo
District News, and Photo Life. Karanian is also a co-author of
`Catching Fire: Containing Forced Migration in a Volatile World,'
published by Lexington Books.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/02/16/world-premiere-book-launch-for-armenias-first-travel-guide-on-february-21/
13:54 16.02.2013
Matthew Karanian and Robert Kurkjian will present their book, Armenia
and Karabakh: The Stone Garden Travel Guide, and will be on hand for a
talk and book signing on February 21, at the Consulate General of
Armenia in Los Angeles.
The event is the world premiere launch for the new edition of the
book, which is Armenia's best-selling travel guide. This third edition
was published this week and contains 320 pages illustrated with 150
color photographs and 30 detailed maps. A never-before published map
of historic Armenia, which was created shortly after the Genocide, is
also featured in the book.
The Stone Garden Travel Guide is the only guidebook for the region
that emphasizes conservation and ecology. The book is also the only
photo-based guide to Armenia.
Karanian and Kurkjian have each spent nearly two decades living and
working in Armenia while researching and writing this and previous
editions of the book. Each of them first traveled to Armenia in 1995
to work as professors at the AmericanUniversity of Armenia. Karanian
is an attorney, and he served as Associate Dean of the law program.
Kurkjian is an environmental scientist, and he was Director of the
university's Environmental Conservation and ResearchCenter. The book
is illustrated with color maps produced by AUA's Birds of Armenia
Project.
Their writing and photography about Armenia has also been featured in
magazines and newspapers of wide distribution in the US, Europe, and
Canada, including in CNN Traveller magazine, Geographical, Photo
District News, and Photo Life. Karanian is also a co-author of
`Catching Fire: Containing Forced Migration in a Volatile World,'
published by Lexington Books.