High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland

High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland

High Caucasus is Tom Parfitt's wonderfully atmospheric memoir-cum-travel narrative about the 1,000-mile walk he made to lay to rest a ghost. On the 1 September 2004, at the Beslan siege in Russia when…

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