READING GUIDE Caucasus

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Essential Reading Package-EXCCS12 Alice Feiring For the Love of Wine Item EXCCS12. Buy these 4 items as a set for $82 CCS79 | 2016 | 208 pages | HARD COVER including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With free Buy Package shipping on anything else you order. After falling in love with and its celebrated wine, Alice Feiring travels throughout the country Darra Goldstein meeting winemakers, farmers, artists and more, The Georgian Feast collecting both stories and recipes to present a compelling portrait of a stunning country and its CCS02 | 2013 | 229 pages | PAPER remarkable people. Historian and food expert Goldstein explores the food, $24.95 traditions and geography of Georgia, as beautiful as it is bountiful, in this savory cultural history. With Caroline Eden, Eleanor Ford illustrations by delightful 19th-century primitivist Niko Pisosmani. $29.95 CAS248 | 2016 | 256 pages | HARD COVER An excellent introduction to Samarkand (by turns Thomas De Waal inhabited by Uzbeks, Tajiks, Russians, Turks, Koryo- The Caucasus, An Introduction Sarams, and Afghans), this compendium brings the region to life with essays, photos and plenty of CCS48 | 2010 | 288 pages | PAPER recipes little-known to the West. A timely, readable portrait of the Caucasus by an $34.95 experienced journalist working in the region. With historical background, insight into energy production Naomi Duguid and an analysis of struggles for independence. Taste of Persia, A Cook's Travels Through $18.95 Armenia, , Georgia, , and Kurdistan John Noble CCS77 | 2016 | 400 pages | HARD COVER Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan Centering on a culinary tradition that is (alas) poorly understood in the West, this cookbook presents 125 CCS05 | 2016 | 320 pages | PAPER recipes from the Caucasus and Middle East, framed An excellent practical guide featuring a good overview with locals' stories and photographs. of culture, history and nature, 16 pages of color $35.00 photos, 40 maps and a language guide. $24.99 Neal Ascherson Black Sea Freytag & Berndt RUS46 | 1996 | 306 pages | PAPER Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan Map In this skillful regional portrait, Ascherson weaves his CCS01 | 2011 | 2 pages | MAP own travels and impressions with a fascinating A travel map of the Caucasus at a scale 1:1,000,000. account of the Black Sea's history. From ancient mythology to modern politics, he admirably never $14.95 loses sight of the sea itself. Buy Package $22.00 Michael Khodarkovsky Russia's Steppe Frontier, The Making of a Colonial Also Recommended Empire, 1500-1800 CCS28 | 2005 | 290 pages | PAPER Tim Burford In this sweeping, scholarly history Khodarkovsky Bradt Guide Georgia traces Russian imperial adventures in the Caucasus CCS03 | 2015 | 288 pages | PAPER from the decline of the Mongols to the end of the 18th This convenient guide is a personal, detailed overview century. of Georgia. It includes coverage of the Black Sea $26.00 coast, and other major towns, as well as information on history, culture and accommodations. Charles King $26.99 The Ghost of Freedom, A Modern History of the Caucasus Nikki Kazimova CCS39 | 2009 | 336 pages | PAPER Culture Smart! Azerbaijan A professor at Georgetown, King reveals the imperial CCS49 | 2011 | 168 pages | PAPER ambitions, larger-than-life personalities and romance A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local of this strategic region. customs, etiquette and culture, equally of interest to $20.95 the traveler and business person. $9.95

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Vasily Grossman An Armenian Sketchbook The Orientalist, Solving the Mystery of a Strange CCS63 | 2013 | 135 pages | PAPER and Dangerous Life Newly translated, Grossman's journal of a stay in CCS27 | 2006 | 286 pages | PAPER Armenia in the early 1960s affectionately depicts the A storyteller of the first order, Reiss weaves a people and traditions of a mountain village. wonderful tapestry of information about the cultures $14.95 and religions in the Caucasus with this wonderful tale of the remarkable life of -- a fabulist, Peter Balakian interpreter of cultures, novelist and rogue who reinvented himself as . Black Dog of Fate, A Memoir $17.00 CCS12 | 2009 | 304 pages | PAPER This powerful memoir combines Balakian's coming-of- Natasha Randall (Translator), Mikhail Lermontov age as an Armenian-American in New Jersey with his A Hero of Our Time growing realization of the horrors suffered by his family in the Armenian genocide of 1915 in Ottoman RUS316 | 2009 | 174 pages | PAPER Turkey. The story of the bored and cynical antihero Pechorin. $16.99 A subtle, psychological and brooding masterpiece of Russian Romanticism originally published in 1840, it Nicholas Griffin influenced later 19th century greats including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chekhov. Caucasus, A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam $15.00 CCS25 | 2004 | 256 pages | PAPER Charles Cumming An engaging account of travels in the Caucasus in the A Spy by Nature footsteps of , a Muslim who resisted the Russians in the 19th century. The book is a portrait of CCS44 | 2008 | 355 pages | PAPER the people, land and issues in the region. Introducing the London School of Economics graduate $23.00 and reluctant British spy Alec Milius. When he lands a prime job for a British oil company, Alec finds himself Yo'av Karny trapped in a world of secrets and lies that could cost him his life. Highlanders, A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory $18.99 CCS20 | 2001 | 436 pages | PAPER Paul Theroux (Afterword), Kurban Said In this astute portrait of a complex region in the wake Ali and Nino, A Love Story of the Soviet Union dissolution, an Israeli journalist travels into the Caucasus to uncover what fuels the CCS26 | 2013 | 240 pages | PAPER conflicts that divide the region's many ethnic and The deeply sentimental tale, set in in the years religious communities. before WWI, of an Azerbaijani Muslim boy in love with $32.00 a Georgian Christian girl, originally published in 1937. $15.95 Michael J. Arlen, Clark Blaise (Introduction) Passage to Ararat Michael Chabon CCS11 | 2006 | 293 pages | PAPER Gentlemen of the Road Arlen's National Book Award-winning memoir of his MDE125 | 2008 | 224 pages | PAPER father and the rediscovery of his Armenian heritage. This medieval adventure by Pulitzer Prize-winner He interweaves stories of travel and family with an Chabon is set in the Caucasus Mountains, where two account of the troubled history of the country. thieves for hire are responsible for the fate of the $20.00 empire of the Khazars. $15.00 Nora Seligman Favorov (Translator), Oleg V. Khlevniuk , Aylmer Maude (Translator) Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator Hadji Murad CCS71 | 2016 | 424 pages | PAPER CCS18 | 2003 | 192 pages | PAPER An authoritative, illuminating biography of Georgian A short war novel by the incomparable, masterful Josef Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1929 Russian writer. Set in the 19th-century Caucasus it is until his death in 1953 and caused the death and inspired by Tolstoy's time as a soldier and narrates imprisonment of more than a million Soviet citizens conflicts between the occupying Russians and Muslim per year. groups in the region. $25.00 $15.00 Wendell Steavenson Stories I Stole, A Journey to Georgia CCS22 | 2004 | 277 pages | PAPER Witty, engaging and attuned to the complexities of history and ethnicity, Steavenson, a veteran journalist, spins lyrical tales of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia as it crumbles around her in the late 1990s. $13.00

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