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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 01 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Michael Braun. |
| Summary |
In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the front lines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece and enlist as a volunteer. He arrived on the isle of Lesvos with a duffel bag and a dubious grasp of Greek, his mother's native tongue, and worked on the landing beaches and in OXY - a jerrybuilt, ad hoc transit camp providing simple meals, dry clothes, and a brief rest to refugees after their crossing from Turkey. In a town deserted by the tourists that had been its lifeblood, Heighton - alongside the exhausted locals and under-equipped international aid workers - found himself thrown into emergency roles for which he was woefully unqualified. From the brief reprieves of volunteer-refugee soccer matches to the riots of Camp Moria, Reaching Mithymna is a firsthand account of the crisis and an engaged exploration of the borders that divide us and the ties that bind. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Heighton, Steven, 1961-
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Refugee camps -- Greece -- Lesbos (Municipality)
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Refugees -- Greece -- Lesbos (Municipality)
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Volunteer workers in social service -- Greece -- Lesbos (Municipality)
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Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- -- Refugees.
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| Added Author |
Braun, Michael (Actor), narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781705027820 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1705027822 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14340449 |
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