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''Outstanding'' TIMES

''Gripping'' ECONOMIST

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR

Emotionally scarred after witnessing the bloody climax of the Beslan school siege in Russia''s North Caucasus, in which 314 hostages died, Tom Parfitt set out on a journey. In High Caucasus, he shares his remarkable thousand-mile quest in search of personal peace - and a greater understanding of the roots of violence in a region whose fate has tragic parallels with the Ukraine of today.

Starting in Sochi on the Black Sea and walking the mountains to Derbent, the ancient fortress city on the Caspian, Parfitt traverses the political, religious and ethnic fault-lines of seven Russian republics, including Chechnya and Dagestan. Through bear-haunted forests, across high altitude pastures and over the shou

High Caucasus

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''Outstanding'' TIMES''Gripping'' ECONOMISTSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL... Read more

    Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 1/4/2024
    ISBN13: 9781472294807, 978-1472294807
    ISBN10: 1472294807

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

    Description

    ''Outstanding'' TIMES

    ''Gripping'' ECONOMIST

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR

    Emotionally scarred after witnessing the bloody climax of the Beslan school siege in Russia''s North Caucasus, in which 314 hostages died, Tom Parfitt set out on a journey. In High Caucasus, he shares his remarkable thousand-mile quest in search of personal peace - and a greater understanding of the roots of violence in a region whose fate has tragic parallels with the Ukraine of today.

    Starting in Sochi on the Black Sea and walking the mountains to Derbent, the ancient fortress city on the Caspian, Parfitt traverses the political, religious and ethnic fault-lines of seven Russian republics, including Chechnya and Dagestan. Through bear-haunted forests, across high altitude pastures and over the shou

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