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Here is a brief selection of favorite, new and hard-to-find books, prepared for your journey. For your convenience, you may call (800) 342-2164 to order these books directly from Longitude, a specialty mail-order book service. To order online, and to get the latest, most comprehensive selection of books for your voyage, go directly to http://www.longitudebooks.com/caucasus-896-212?affiliate=3Q Essential Reading Package-EXCCS12 Item EXCCS12. Buy these 4 items as a set for $82 including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With free shipping on anything else you order. Buy Package Darra Goldstein The Georgian Feast CCS02 | 2013 | 229 pages | PAPER Historian and food expert Goldstein explores the food, traditions and geography of Georgia, as beautiful as it is bountiful, in this savory cultural history. With illustrations by delightful 19th-century primitivist Niko Pisosmani. $29.95 Thomas De Waal The Caucasus, An Introduction CCS48 | 2010 | 288 pages | PAPER A timely, readable portrait of the Caucasus by an experienced journalist working in the region. With historical background, insight into energy production and an analysis of struggles for independence. $18.95 John Noble Lonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan CCS05 | 2016 | 320 pages | PAPER An excellent practical guide featuring a good overview of culture, history and nature, 16 pages of color photos, 40 maps and a language guide. $24.99 Freytag & Berndt Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan Map CCS01 | 2011 | 2 pages | MAP A travel map of the Caucasus at a scale 1:1,000,000. $14.95 Buy Package Also Recommended Tim Burford Bradt Guide Georgia CCS03 | 2015 | 288 pages | PAPER This convenient guide is a personal, detailed overview of Georgia. It includes coverage of the Black Sea coast, Tbilisi and other major towns, as well as information on history, culture and accommodations. $26.99 Nikki Kazimova Culture Smart! Azerbaijan CCS49 | 2011 | 168 pages | PAPER A concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture, equally of interest to the traveler and business person. $9.95 Alice Feiring For the Love of Wine CCS79 | 2016 | 208 pages | HARD COVER After falling in love with Georgia and its celebrated wine, Alice Feiring travels throughout the country meeting winemakers, farmers, artists and more, collecting both stories and recipes to present a compelling portrait of a stunning country and its remarkable people. $24.95 Caroline Eden, Eleanor Ford Samarkand CAS248 | 2016 | 256 pages | HARD COVER An excellent introduction to Samarkand (by turns inhabited by Uzbeks, Tajiks, Russians, Turks, Koryo- Sarams, Jews and Afghans), this compendium brings the region to life with essays, photos and plenty of recipes little-known to the West. $34.95 Naomi Duguid Taste of Persia, A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan CCS77 | 2016 | 400 pages | HARD COVER Centering on a culinary tradition that is (alas) poorly understood in the West, this cookbook presents 125 recipes from the Caucasus and Middle East, framed with locals' stories and photographs. $35.00 Neal Ascherson Black Sea RUS46 | 1996 | 306 pages | PAPER In this skillful regional portrait, Ascherson weaves his own travels and impressions with a fascinating account of the Black Sea's history. From ancient mythology to modern politics, he admirably never loses sight of the sea itself. $22.00 Michael Khodarkovsky Russia's Steppe Frontier, The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 CCS28 | 2005 | 290 pages | PAPER In this sweeping, scholarly history Khodarkovsky traces Russian imperial adventures in the Caucasus from the decline of the Mongols to the end of the 18th century. $26.00 Charles King The Ghost of Freedom, A Modern History of the Caucasus CCS39 | 2009 | 336 pages | PAPER A professor at Georgetown, King reveals the imperial ambitions, larger-than-life personalities and romance of this strategic region. $20.95 READING GUIDE Caucasus To order, go to: http://www.longitudebooks.com/caucasus-896-212?affiliate=3Q or call 800-342-2164

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Page 1: READING GUIDE Caucasus - Original World€¦ · Introducing the London School of Economics graduate and reluctant British spy Alec Milius. When he lands a prime job for a British

Here is a brief selection of favorite, new and hard-to-find books, prepared for your journey. For your convenience, you may call (800) 342-2164

to order these books directly from Longitude, a specialty mail-order book service. To order online, and to get the latest, most comprehensive

selection of books for your voyage, go directly to http://www.longitudebooks.com/caucasus-896-212?affiliate=3Q

Essential Reading Package-EXCCS12

Item EXCCS12. Buy these 4 items as a set for $82including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With freeshipping on anything else you order.

Buy Package

Darra GoldsteinThe Georgian FeastCCS02 | 2013 | 229 pages | PAPERHistorian and food expert Goldstein explores the food,traditions and geography of Georgia, as beautiful as itis bountiful, in this savory cultural history. Withillustrations by delightful 19th-century primitivist NikoPisosmani.$29.95

Thomas De WaalThe Caucasus, An IntroductionCCS48 | 2010 | 288 pages | PAPERA timely, readable portrait of the Caucasus by anexperienced journalist working in the region. Withhistorical background, insight into energy productionand an analysis of struggles for independence.$18.95

John NobleLonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & AzerbaijanCCS05 | 2016 | 320 pages | PAPERAn excellent practical guide featuring a good overviewof culture, history and nature, 16 pages of colorphotos, 40 maps and a language guide.$24.99

Freytag & BerndtCaucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan MapCCS01 | 2011 | 2 pages | MAPA travel map of the Caucasus at a scale 1:1,000,000.$14.95

Buy Package

Also Recommended

Tim BurfordBradt Guide GeorgiaCCS03 | 2015 | 288 pages | PAPERThis convenient guide is a personal, detailed overviewof Georgia. It includes coverage of the Black Seacoast, Tbilisi and other major towns, as well asinformation on history, culture and accommodations.$26.99

Nikki KazimovaCulture Smart! AzerbaijanCCS49 | 2011 | 168 pages | PAPERA concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to localcustoms, etiquette and culture, equally of interest tothe traveler and business person.$9.95

Alice FeiringFor the Love of WineCCS79 | 2016 | 208 pages | HARD COVERAfter falling in love with Georgia and its celebratedwine, Alice Feiring travels throughout the countrymeeting winemakers, farmers, artists and more,collecting both stories and recipes to present acompelling portrait of a stunning country and itsremarkable people.$24.95

Caroline Eden, Eleanor FordSamarkandCAS248 | 2016 | 256 pages | HARD COVERAn excellent introduction to Samarkand (by turnsinhabited by Uzbeks, Tajiks, Russians, Turks, Koryo-Sarams, Jews and Afghans), this compendium bringsthe region to life with essays, photos and plenty ofrecipes little-known to the West.$34.95

Naomi DuguidTaste of Persia, A Cook's Travels ThroughArmenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and KurdistanCCS77 | 2016 | 400 pages | HARD COVERCentering on a culinary tradition that is (alas) poorlyunderstood in the West, this cookbook presents 125recipes from the Caucasus and Middle East, framedwith locals' stories and photographs.$35.00

Neal AschersonBlack SeaRUS46 | 1996 | 306 pages | PAPERIn this skillful regional portrait, Ascherson weaves hisown travels and impressions with a fascinatingaccount of the Black Sea's history. From ancientmythology to modern politics, he admirably neverloses sight of the sea itself.$22.00

Michael KhodarkovskyRussia's Steppe Frontier, The Making of a ColonialEmpire, 1500-1800CCS28 | 2005 | 290 pages | PAPERIn this sweeping, scholarly history Khodarkovskytraces Russian imperial adventures in the Caucasusfrom the decline of the Mongols to the end of the 18thcentury.$26.00

Charles KingThe Ghost of Freedom, A Modern History of theCaucasusCCS39 | 2009 | 336 pages | PAPERA professor at Georgetown, King reveals the imperialambitions, larger-than-life personalities and romanceof this strategic region.$20.95

READING GUIDE

Caucasus

To order, go to: http://www.longitudebooks.com/caucasus-896-212?affiliate=3Q or call 800-342-2164

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Vasily GrossmanAn Armenian SketchbookCCS63 | 2013 | 135 pages | PAPERNewly translated, Grossman's journal of a stay inArmenia in the early 1960s affectionately depicts thepeople and traditions of a mountain village.$14.95

Peter BalakianBlack Dog of Fate, A MemoirCCS12 | 2009 | 304 pages | PAPERThis powerful memoir combines Balakian's coming-of-age as an Armenian-American in New Jersey with hisgrowing realization of the horrors suffered by hisfamily in the Armenian genocide of 1915 in OttomanTurkey.$16.99

Nicholas GriffinCaucasus, A Journey to the Land betweenChristianity and IslamCCS25 | 2004 | 256 pages | PAPERAn engaging account of travels in the Caucasus in thefootsteps of Imam Shamil, a Muslim who resisted theRussians in the 19th century. The book is a portrait ofthe people, land and issues in the region.$23.00

Yo'av KarnyHighlanders, A Journey to the Caucasus in Questof MemoryCCS20 | 2001 | 436 pages | PAPERIn this astute portrait of a complex region in the wakeof the Soviet Union dissolution, an Israeli journalisttravels into the Caucasus to uncover what fuels theconflicts that divide the region's many ethnic andreligious communities.$32.00

Michael J. Arlen, Clark Blaise (Introduction)Passage to AraratCCS11 | 2006 | 293 pages | PAPERArlen's National Book Award-winning memoir of hisfather and the rediscovery of his Armenian heritage.He interweaves stories of travel and family with anaccount of the troubled history of the country.$20.00

Nora Seligman Favorov (Translator), Oleg V.KhlevniukStalin: New Biography of a DictatorCCS71 | 2016 | 424 pages | PAPERAn authoritative, illuminating biography of GeorgianJosef Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1929until his death in 1953 and caused the death andimprisonment of more than a million Soviet citizensper year.$25.00

Wendell SteavensonStories I Stole, A Journey to GeorgiaCCS22 | 2004 | 277 pages | PAPERWitty, engaging and attuned to the complexities ofhistory and ethnicity, Steavenson, a veteran journalist,spins lyrical tales of the former Soviet Republic ofGeorgia as it crumbles around her in the late 1990s.$13.00

Tom ReissThe Orientalist, Solving the Mystery of a Strangeand Dangerous LifeCCS27 | 2006 | 286 pages | PAPERA storyteller of the first order, Reiss weaves awonderful tapestry of information about the culturesand religions in the Caucasus with this wonderful taleof the remarkable life of Lev Nussimbaum -- a fabulist,interpreter of cultures, novelist and rogue whoreinvented himself as Kurban Said.$17.00

Natasha Randall (Translator), Mikhail LermontovA Hero of Our TimeRUS316 | 2009 | 174 pages | PAPERThe story of the bored and cynical antihero Pechorin.A subtle, psychological and brooding masterpiece ofRussian Romanticism originally published in 1840, itinfluenced later 19th century greats including Tolstoy,Dostoyevsky and Chekhov.$15.00

Charles CummingA Spy by NatureCCS44 | 2008 | 355 pages | PAPERIntroducing the London School of Economics graduateand reluctant British spy Alec Milius. When he lands aprime job for a British oil company, Alec finds himselftrapped in a world of secrets and lies that could costhim his life.$18.99

Paul Theroux (Afterword), Kurban SaidAli and Nino, A Love StoryCCS26 | 2013 | 240 pages | PAPERThe deeply sentimental tale, set in Baku in the yearsbefore WWI, of an Azerbaijani Muslim boy in love witha Georgian Christian girl, originally published in 1937.$15.95

Michael ChabonGentlemen of the RoadMDE125 | 2008 | 224 pages | PAPERThis medieval adventure by Pulitzer Prize-winnerChabon is set in the Caucasus Mountains, where twothieves for hire are responsible for the fate of theempire of the Khazars.$15.00

Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (Translator)Hadji MuradCCS18 | 2003 | 192 pages | PAPERA short war novel by the incomparable, masterfulRussian writer. Set in the 19th-century Caucasus it isinspired by Tolstoy's time as a soldier and narratesconflicts between the occupying Russians and Muslimgroups in the region.$15.00

READING GUIDE

Caucasus

To order, go to: http://www.longitudebooks.com/caucasus-896-212?affiliate=3Q or call 800-342-2164

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