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Bread And Ashes
- A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia
Engelsk Paperback
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Bread And Ashes

- A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia
Engelsk Paperback

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Tony Anderson set out in the summer of 1998 to walk through Georgia. He wanted particularly to visit the Georgian mountain tribes - Tush, Khevsurs, Ratchuelians and Svans - to discover if they shared a common mountain culture, and to test the old idea of the Caucasus as an impenetrable barrier from sea to sea. From Azerbaijan to Svaneti, Anderson found communities where the old customs and beliefs still triumphantly survive, despite years of Communist oppression and the terrible uncertainties since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Throughout his journey Anderson refers back to many other visits to Georgia, to the politics of independence, to the war in Abkhazia and Ossetia, to the civil war and Shevardnadze''s accession to power, to the history of these people at one of the great crossroads of the world. It remains an abiding mystery that Georgia has managed to survive at all, devastated time and again by the vagabond hordes from the steppes and torn between the mighty empires that struggled over it. But survive it has with a vibrant culture still intact and, in the mountains, still deeply connected to its ancient ways.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
400
ISBN-13:
9780099437871
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0099437872
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Udg. Dato:
1 apr 2004
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato:
1 apr 2004
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