The first English-language personal account of high adventure in the Caucasus, Arnold Zisserman’s "Twenty-Five Years in the Caucasus, 1842-1867" is a rare and important work.... Read More

This newly translated travelogue is measured in the sound of the wheels of carts and the clatter of hooves. The Caucasus has never lacked for attention from travelers. From... Read More

“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography,” so Mark Twain is said to have remarked. If so, our own Diogenes on this occasion seemingly overestimated providential... Read More