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Edge of Time: Traveling in Armenia and Karabagh (Revised Second Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Matthew Karanian, Robert Kurkjian
Publisher: Stone Garden Productions
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1664610
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 164
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0967212022
Dewey Decimal Number: 914
EAN: 9780967212029
ASIN: 0967212022
Publication Date: June 2002
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Edge of Time is the first and only travel guide to feature Armenia and Karabagh in one stand-alone volume. This Revised Second Edition was published in 2002 and contains the most up-to-date information available. Quality paperback, durable binding, printed on premium quality paper, 5X8 inches. 164 pages with more than 50 color photographs and maps. Detailed listings for hotels, restaurants and historic sites. How to get there; How to get around; what to bring; when to go; and all the essential information every traveler needs.
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 Beautiful and Informative February 7, 2002
M. Zakarian (California)
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
I used this book when I went to Armenia in August. It's a very good book to read before you go because there is a lot of background information in addition to all the usual hotel and restaurant listings and etc. The pictures were really good so I saved the book after my trip. I would say the best part was on Karabagh. This is the only book I have ever found that has any good travel information on Karabagh. I carried it around everywhere and I would definitely recommend it to buy.
A delightful little book September 5, 2002
T. McPherson (US)
14 out of 17 found this review helpful
This is a delightful little book. I just couldn't put it down when I first got it! My husband and I had been quite anxious about making our first trip to Armenia and Karabagh this year, and the advice in the book really eased our minds by letting us know what to expect when we got there. Just KNOWING what to expect was such a help especially for someplace so far-off like Armenia. The advice about getting around and just getting by on a daily basis was very practical. And it's an easy read. As pertains history and facts about ancient churches and so-forth, it only skimmed the surface but we didn't really expect a scholarly treatise about religious history and architecture, so we weren't disappointed. Still, a bit more "trivia" would have been welcome. We were thrilled to see so such thorough coverage of Karabagh, but would have liked to have seen more information about Echmiadzin (the "Vatican of Armenia"!) and Gyumri. I suggest reading parts of the history book "Looking Toward Ararat," (by Suny) and another one called "Rediscovering Armenia" (authored by Kiesling), which was sort of an encyclopedia of historical monuments and quite detailed (although a bit of a mish-mash and difficult to read). We also had the Lonely Planet book which we thought was just dreadful.
worth the price September 2, 2002
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
I've been to Armenia 3 times in the past 4 years and have read every single guide that I could find. I agree with several of the reviewers that it is still the best travel guide on the market and the photos are superb. I only gave it 4 stars though because i think it could be "beefed up" in certain areas. I hope the publisher comes out with a 3rd edition some day to update Armenia's constant changes and perhaps provide a little more detail on specific regions and historic sites. however, i don't think it should become an atlas or a compendium- it is afterall a "travel guide."
 Nonsense January 25, 2003
Rafael Hasanov (San Diego, CA United States)
8 out of 36 found this review helpful
Does this book say that Karabagh is an essential part of Azerbaijan and its occupied by Armenian armed forces?
 The best in its field - and that's not saying much July 22, 2002
Still laughing at Fulham (London)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'm afraid its a sad reflection on the dearth of good literature about contemporary Armenia that this book is probably the best English-language guidebook for the country (the Lonely Planet guide being only useful for, say, propping up a wobbly leg on a coffee table). I'm surprised the other reviewers think it's so great - unless of course (a) they're related to the authors - and I suspect many of them probably hail from a certain part of California !) or (b) they don't expect much from their books. Sure, it's got great pictures (but for this readers should buy the authors' excellent Out of Stone book). But the info on Armenia is dreadfully thin, with little or no background info on most of the wonderful historical monuments and churches that dot Armenia. Fascinating and beautiful monasteries, chapels etc get casual one-line mentions: nothing about the immense history these monuments have, and the great stories that surround more or less every ancient building in Armenia. There's hardly any maps, and infuriatingly there's no index to the book! Having just spent eight days driving around Armenia (albeit with an excellent local guide) I have to say that the volume is too insubtantial to qualify as a proper guidebook. Armenia is such an amazing, beautiful and historic place it deserves a detailed, well researched and professional guide in its own right (and not just an annex to the Brandt Georgia one). I hope someone soon will step up and produce this kind of book. I give it three stars just for the photos.
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