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Beschreibung

'A work of extraordinary imaginative empathy and power'
The Spectator

'Courageous, clear-eyed and searingly real'
Kapka Kassabova, author of Border

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 shoulders of Elbrus, Europe's highest mountain, he finds companionship and respite in the homes of proud, little-known peoples. This is a stunning story of confronting trauma through connection with history, people and place.

'A travel book for our time... thoughtful, uplifting and hugely enjoyable'
Sara Wheeler, author of Terra Incognita

'Richly evocative, magnanimous, and timely'
Rachel Polonsky, author of Molotov's Magic Lantern

'A work of extraordinary imaginative empathy and power'
The Spectator

'Courageous, clear-eyed and searingly real'
Kapka Kassabova, author of Border

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 shoulders of Elbrus, Europe's highest mountain, he finds companionship and respite in the homes of proud, little-known peoples. This is a stunning story of confronting trauma through connection with history, people and place.

'A travel book for our time... thoughtful, uplifting and hugely enjoyable'
Sara Wheeler, author of Terra Incognita

'Richly evocative, magnanimous, and timely'
Rachel Polonsky, author of Molotov's Magic Lantern

Über den Autor
Tom Parfitt
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781472294807
ISBN-10: 1472294807
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Parfitt, Tom
Hersteller: Headline Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 193 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Tom Parfitt
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.07.2024
Gewicht: 0,274 kg
Artikel-ID: 129471849