Mapping the rise of Islam through myth, history, and politics, this travelogue centers on the story of Imam Shamil, the greatest Muslim warrior of the nineteenth century, who led a forty-year campaign against the invading Russians.
-Washington Times NICHOLAS GRIFFIN'S first novel , Requiem Shark , won the Betty Trask Prize in 2000. He is also the author of The House of Sight and Shadow . Cover photograph : Village of Hinaliq by John Boit , © 1999.
Caucasus: The Paradise Lost
Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. 1995. ... The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus. ... There are a couple of academic journals that are concerned with both the Caucasus and Central Asia; ...
The Caucasus is a jagged land.