High Caucasus - A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland

Informationen zum Autor Tom Parfitt grew up in Norfolk and studied politics and Russian at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London. He worked for twenty years as a correspondent in Moscow for The Guardian , The Daily Telegraph and The Times . He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Klappentext A wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about how British journalist Tom Parfitt walked a thousand miles across Russia's Caucasus mountains to lay to rest a ghost after witnessing the carnage of the Beslan school siege in 2004. Vorwort A wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about how British journalist Tom Parfitt walked a thousand miles across Russia's Caucasus mountains to lay to rest a ghost after witnessing the carnage of the Beslan school siege in 2004. Zusammenfassung A wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about how British journalist Tom Parfitt walked a thousand miles across Russia's Caucasus mountains to lay to rest a ghost after witnessing the carnage of the Beslan school siege in 2004.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Parfitt
• Publisher: Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2023
• EAN: 9781472294760
• ISBN: 978-1-4722-9476-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 236 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, Eastern Europe, Russia, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century, History: earliest times to present day, History of other geographical groupings and regions, The Caucasus, Russia: North Caucasus District