The Rugged Flanks of the Caucasus

First published 1940. Also titled Travels in the Caucasus, this book gave the British writer and traveller John F. Baddeley the opportunity to describe in great depth the society and culture of the Caucasus at the turn of the last century. Much of this detail he was not able to put into his previous, more politically orientated studies, such as The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus (1908; Caucasus World 1999) and Russia, Mongolia and China (1919). His masterly style and sensitivity for his subject is at once apparent. This book ranges widely in topic and will appeal to a variety of readers, covering as it does geography, topography, ethnology, history, archaeology, botany, zoology and traditional customs.