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	Odyssey Guide Georgia  •  Robert Rosen  •  Jeffrey Jay Foxx  •  Eduard Shevardnadze GUIDEBOOK •  2004 •  PAPER  • 384 PAGES A comprehensive travel guide to Georgia and the Caucasus, extensively revised, with maps, color photographs, and an excellent overview of culture and history. The heart of the book is a region-by-region guide to attractions. It includes literary excerpts from the works of well known Georgian authors and selections from the national epic, "The Knight in the Panther's Skin." President Eduard Shevardnadze contributed the preface. (CCS04, $23.95)
	Stories I Stole, A Journey to Georgia  •  Wendell Steavenson TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 277 PAGES 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. She, helpfully, includes a glossary of ethnic groups in the region (Chechen, Georgian, and Abkhazian among them), and an excellent bibliography. Her stories, many revolving around a single character (she befriended many people, including a famous Chechen rebel), capture both the charm of the people and the desperate conditions in Georgia. At one point she admits "I was happy; charmed, drunk and beguiled like thousands of guests and invaders before me, in the land of hospitality." She certainly wasn't bored! A superb first book by a talented writer. (CCS22, $13.00)
	The Georgian Feast, The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia  •  Darra Goldstein  •  Niko Pirosmani CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1999 •  PAPER  • 229 PAGES Historian and food expert Darra Goldstein offers up a savory introduction to the Republic of Georgia in this illustrated cultural history. She combines her love of Georgian food -- and recipes -- with information on geography, history and culture. (CCS02, $19.95)
	Caucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan  •   Freytag & Berndt REFERENCE •  MAP A travel map of the Caucasus at a scale 1:1,000,000. (CCS01, $12.95)

	Bradt Guide Georgia  •  Tim Burford   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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. (CCS03, $25.99)
	Walking in the Caucasus, Georgia  •  Peter Nasmyth   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This walking guide to the Caucasus, with an emphasis on the flora and fauna, covers the remarkable geographical diversity of Georgia. (CCS30, $19.95)
	Black Sea  •  Neal Ascherson   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Ascherson weaves his own travels and impressions with a fascinating account of the history of the region in this skillful portrait. (RUS46, $18.00)
	The Cossacks, An Illustrated History  •  John Ure   • HISTORY  •  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, $45.00)
	The Ottoman Centuries  •  Lord Kinross   • HISTORY  •  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, $18.95)
	Art of the Byzantine Era  •  David Talbot Rice   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An indispensable classic and a thoroughly illustrated introduction to Byzantine art, wide-ranging and literate. Though it focuses on early Christian Constantinople, the book also includes chapters on Sicily, Venice and the Slavonic art of the Balkans. (TKY22, $16.95)
	Among the Russians  •  Colin Thubron   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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 complex Russian identity in this lyrical book. (RUS106, $14.00)
	Caucasus, A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam  •  Nicholas Griffin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An engaging account of travels in the Caucasus in the footsteps of Imam Shamil, a muslim who resisted in the Russians in the 19th century. The book is a portrait of the people, land and issues in the region. (CCS25, $18.00)
	Eastward to Tartary  •  Robert D. Kaplan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  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, $14.95)
	Lords of the Horizons, A History of the Ottoman Empire  •  Jason Goodwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A wonderful writer and journalist, Goodwin artfully combines his modern travels with scholarship, history and reflection, capturing the outrageous personalities, events and vagaries of the 600-year-old Ottoman empire. (TKY44, $16.95)
	Passage to Ararat  •  Michael J. Arlen  •  Clark Blaise   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Arlen's National Book Award-winning memoir of his father and the rediscovery of his Armenian heritage. He interweaves stories of travel and family with an account of the troubled history of the country. (CCS11, $15.00)
	The Orientalist, Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life  •  Tom Reiss   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A storyteller of the first order, Reiss weaves much 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, $15.95)
	Vagabond Life, The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan  •  George Kennan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An account of a six-month odyssey in Muslim Dagestan by the irrepressible Russian explorer. (CCS21, $30.00)
	Hadji Murad  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Aylmer Maude   • LITERATURE  •  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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