Armenia Travel Guide to be presented Feb 21

February 15, 2013 – 11:01 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – 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 Thursday, 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 American University 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 Research Center. 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 U.S., 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.

The new Armenia travel book is available from Amazon.com and from
independent bookstores.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress