Reaching Mithymna, Steven Heighton
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Reaching Mithymna
Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos

Narrator: Michael Braun

Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/12/2021


Synopsis

In the fall of 2015, Steven Heighton made an overnight decision to travel to the frontlines 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.

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