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The narrative of the captivity and escape of Christoforos Platon Kastanis during the massacre on the island of Chios by the Turks, with various adventures in Greece and America written by himself.
Second translated edition
Easter of 1822 was destined to be one of the most horrific moments in humanity. The destruction of Chios by the Ottoman hordes gave new meaning to the word atrocity.
In the midst of this massacre, a child struggles to survive but becomes a witness to the enslavement and destructive frenzy of the Turks.
He is captured, sold as a slave several times, and eventually manages to escape, finding himself wandering and homeless in revolutionary Greece.
He manages to meet the philhellene Dr. Howe and almost the first among the modern Greeks to experience the "American dream," studying in the newly established American Republic.
In 1851, Christoforos Kastanis publishes the book in English, which since then remains unpublished in Greek in the library of Pennsylvania.
An exciting narrative that could be a novel but is a nearly "journalistic" approach that only the truth of an eyewitness can contain.
A book that takes us back to the days of revolutionary Greece through the eyes of a child. Perhaps that is why it is the most truthful testimony of its time.
Manufacturer
- Author
- CHristoforos P. Kastanis
- Publisher
- Alfa Pi
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- Testimonial
- Theme
- Modern and Contemporary Greece, Science of History, History of America
- Time Period
- Ottoman Period
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 200
- Release Date
- 12/04/2021
- Publication Date
- 2021
- Dimensions
- 17x24 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789606320835
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