Caucasus
Mountain Men and Holy Wars
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2002
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978-0-7472-3657-3 (ISBN)
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The Caucasus is a land whose jagged terrain points starkly to the region's rich but bloody past - and to a present that is no less troubled. This text combines history with travelogue as it searches the legacy of Imam Shamil, 19th-century freedom fighter and guru of today's Chechen resistance.
The Caucasus is a land whose jagged terrain points starkly to the region's rich but bloody past - and to a present that is no less troubled. Nicholas Griffin combines narrative history with travelogue as he explores the Caucasus in search of the legacy of Imam Shamil, 19th-century freedom fighter and guru of today's Chechen resistance. This book lifts the lid on a little known but crucially important area of the world whose future today, as ever, hangs in balance.
The Caucasus is a land whose jagged terrain points starkly to the region's rich but bloody past - and to a present that is no less troubled. Nicholas Griffin combines narrative history with travelogue as he explores the Caucasus in search of the legacy of Imam Shamil, 19th-century freedom fighter and guru of today's Chechen resistance. This book lifts the lid on a little known but crucially important area of the world whose future today, as ever, hangs in balance.
Nicholas Griffin is an award-winning novelist. This is his first work of non-fiction.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.5.2002 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8pp colour |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 128 x 16 mm |
Gewicht | 198 g |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7472-3657-7 / 0747236577 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7472-3657-3 / 9780747236573 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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