Book description
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.
Frank Westerman was born in 1964 and lived and worked in Moscow from
1997 to 2002 as correspondent for the leading Dutch
NRC Handelsblad
newspaper. Westerman is the author of five highly praised books. His
work has been published in more than ten languages and has won many
prizes.
