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High Caucasus
- A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
- Narrated by: Tom Parfitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
'Gripping' ECONOMIST
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR
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.
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- Linda Durman
- 08-09-24
His ability to belong in two cultures
It’s quite a long book. The author reads it ‘at pace’ as a politition would say. Regret not having a map to follow the journey though
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- Rob Sedgwick
- 29-01-24
Reading speed varies hugely
I found the reading speed generally too fast, but much slower in places. It made it quite hard to take in what was being said.
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- Kindle Customer
- 20-08-23
In the tradition of Newby and Leigh Furmor
I loved this book. I learnt so much about the region and its people and history. The story of the journey is told with a real empathy and modesty while keeping a sense of humour. I'm very grateful to the author for firstly completing the trek and for writing it up now.
It absolutely stands comparison with Eric Newby and Patrick Leigh Fermor.
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- NH
- 28-07-24
Very poor Narration
I was so looking forward to this book happy but should have read the other reviews first. The narration is so bad I had to stop as I didn’t understand the context at all.
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- Dr. Amanda J. Price
- 14-03-24
Very Poor Technical Quality
I kept going with this book for a while because I was enjoying the content, but I was finally forced to give up because the audio quality was so bad. Initially it ran too fast, so I slowed it down, but then I discovered that this exposed the very poor editing. Buy the book, it’s great, but don’t waste time on this audio version.
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