High Caucasus

High Caucasus
Author :
Publisher : Headline
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1472294769
ISBN-13 : 9781472294760
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Book Synopsis High Caucasus by : Tom Parfitt

Download or read book High Caucasus written by Tom Parfitt and published by Headline. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A thrilling, profound masterpiece' Nicholas Crane, author of Clear Waters Rising 'This is a travel book for our time, one that seeks fragments of hope among shards of war. Thoughtful, uplifting and hugely enjoyable' Sara Wheeler, author of Terra Incognita A breath-taking memoir of Tom Parfitt's remarkable 1,000 mile walk through Russia's Caucasus region in search of solace and understanding after witnessing the Beslan school siege. On 1 September 2004, Chechen and Ingush militants took more than a thousand people captive at a school in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. Working as a correspondent, Tom Parfitt witnessed the bloody climax in which 314 hostages died, more than half of them children. The experience left Tom emotionally shredded, struggling to find a way to return to his life in Moscow and put to rest the ghosts of the Beslan siege. Having long been fascinated by the mountainous North Caucasus, Tom turned to his love of walking as a source of both recuperation and discovery. 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 his journey in Sochi on the Black Sea and walking the mountain ranges to Derbent, the ancient fortress city on the Caspian, Tom 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 shoulders of Elbrus, Europe's highest mountain, he finds companionship and respite in the homes of proud, little-known peoples. Walking exerts a restorative power; it also provides a unique, ground-level view of a troubled yet exquisite corner of the world. High Caucasus is a stunning memoir of confronting trauma through connection with history, people and place.


High Caucasus Related Books

High Caucasus
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Tom Parfitt
Categories: Caucasus
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-07-20 - Publisher: Headline

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'A thrilling, profound masterpiece' Nicholas Crane, author of Clear Waters Rising 'This is a travel book for our time, one that seeks fragments of hope among sh
The Caucasus
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Thomas de Waal
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-02 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This new edition of The Caucasus is a thorough update of an essential guide that has introduced thousands of readers to a complex region. Armenia, Azerbaijan, G
The Caucasus 1942–43
Language: en
Pages: 97
Authors: Robert Forczyk
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-20 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad, but this volume tells the other, equally important half of th
Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus
Language: en
Pages: 485
Authors: Galina M. Yemelianova
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-13 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Routledge Handbook of the Caucasus offers an integrated, multidisciplinary overview of the historical, ethno-linguistic, cultural, socio-economic and politi
Dariali: The 'Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 1072
Authors: Eberhard Sauer
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-30 - Publisher: Oxbow Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was