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WILDERNESS TRAVEL
Armenia & Karabagh
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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Bradt Guide Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh
• Nicholas Holding
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 248 PAGES
A comprehensive guide to Armenia and Nagorno Karabagh for the independent traveler, with excellent suggestions for where to go and what to do, and practical advice for getting around.
(CCS37, $25.99) |
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Passage to Ararat
• Michael J. Arlen
• Clark Blaise
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2006 •
PAPER
• 293 PAGES
Winner of the 1976 National Book Award, this is the memoir of a man searching for his Armenian roots. Growing up in a family that has abandoned its connection to Armenia after the genocide of 1915, author Michael J. Arlen decides to take a journey into the past, where he discovers the painful history of his people.
(CCS11, $15.00) |
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Armenia/Azerbaijan Map
• International Travel Maps
MAP
A folded traveler's map of Armenia and Azerbaijan at a scale of 1:650,000. Two Sides. 27x38 inches.
(CCS23, $12.95) |
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Also Recommended
Armenia, At the Crossroads
• Joseph Masih
• Robert O. Krikorian
• HISTORY
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A discussion of modern Armenia and its unstable political position after the collapse of the Soviet Union
(CCS08, $51.95)
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Black Garden, Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War
• Thomas De Waal
• HISTORY
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A highly praised portrait of the region that weaves an account of the author's travels throughout the South Caucasus with an analysis of the Nagorny Karabakh conflict.
(CCS24, $24.00)
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Black Sea
• Neal Ascherson
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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In this skillful portrait of a region, 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.
(RUS46, $19.00)
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Looking Toward Ararat, Armenia in Modern History
• Ronald Grigor Suny
• HISTORY
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A scholarly analysis of Armenian government and society, focusing on modern times up to the early 1990s.
(CCS19, $19.95)
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Russia's Steppe Frontier, The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800
• Michael Khodarkovsky
• HISTORY
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In this sweeping, scholarly history Khodarovsky traces Russian imperial adventures in the Caucasus from the decline of the Mongols to the end of the 18th century.
(CCS28, $23.95)
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The Cossacks, An Illustrated History
• John Ure
• HISTORY
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In this lively, beautifully illustrated overview, a career diplomat (and frequent visitor to the region) explores the history of the Cossacks in Southern Russia and Central Asia and their role in world affairs.
(RUS135, $24.95)
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The History of Armenia
• Simon Payaslian
• HISTORY
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A brief, authoritative history of Armenia from the first millennium B.C. to the present.
(CCS38, $18.95)
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The Ottoman Centuries
• Lord Kinross
• HISTORY
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A richly detailed, engrossing history of the Ottoman Empire from its dawn in 1300 up to the foundation of the modern republic in 1923, enhanced by maps and photos.
(ITL54, $18.99)
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The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923
• Justin McCarthy
• HISTORY
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A vivid overview of the history, customs and traditions of Ottoman Turkey, complete with maps and illustrations.
(TKY36, $82.20)
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Art of the Byzantine Era
• David Talbot Rice
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Wide-ranging and literate, this thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art is an indispensable classic.
(TKY22, $21.95)
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Among the Russians
• Colin Thubron
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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The marvelous account of a 10,000-mile journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia in 1981. A gifted writer and intrepid traveler, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity in this lyrical book.
(RUS106, $14.00)
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Azerbaijan Diary: A Rogue Reporter's Adventures in an Oil-Rich, War-Torn, Post Soviet Republic
• Thomas Goltz
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A first-person account of the chaotic early 1990s in Azerbaijan by a freelance journalist. Both an adventure story and a piece of significant journalism, the book captures the politically charged and somewhat mad atmosphere of the time.
(CCS09, $36.95)
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Black Dog of Fate, A Memoir
• Peter Balakian
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This powerful memoir combines Balakian's coming-of-age as an Armenian-American in New Jersey with his growing realization of the horrors suffered by his family in the Armenian genocide of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey.
(CCS12, $16.95)
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Caucasus, A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam
• Nicholas Griffin
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An engaging account of travels in the Caucasus in the footsteps of Imam Shamil, a Muslim who resisted the Russians in the 19th century. The book is a portrait of the people, land and issues in the region.
(CCS25, $20.00)
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Eastward to Tartary
• Robert D. Kaplan
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A glimpse into the people and history that color the countries of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the Caucasus and finally Central Asia, in a loosely organized travelogue by the author of the acclaimed Balkan Ghosts.
(CAS45, $15.95)
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The Orientalist, Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
• Tom Reiss
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A storyteller of the first order, Reiss weaves a wonderful tapestry of information about the cultures and religions in the Caucasus in this wonderful tale of the remarkable life of Lev Nussimbaum -- a fabulist, interpreter of cultures, novelist and rogue who reinvented himself as Kurban Said.
(CCS27, $17.00)
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Hadji Murad
• Leo Tolstoy
• Aylmer Maude
• LITERATURE
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A short novel set in the 19th-century Caucasus, concerning -- in part -- conflicts between the occupying Russians and Muslim groups in the region.
(CCS18, $11.95)
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