A Dry Ship to the Mountains: Down the Volga And Across the Caucasus-in my Father's Footsteps

by Daniel Farson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.40

  An account of Dan Farson's journey by horseback in the Caucasus, following in the footsteps of his father, the war correspondent Negley Farson, who chronicled his own journey made in 1929 in Caucasian journey. Travelling with two Russian companions, Dan will attempt to successfully - unlike his father - cross the Klukhor Pass. The book will combine a personal quest (comparing his father's arrival at the dawn of communism with his own at its decline) with a travel adventure in a area, capturing the spell of Russia and the Caucasus.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $4.20

  Starting from Moscow at the time of the unsuccessful coup, Daniel Farson travelled on horseback, with two Russian companions, in the footsteps of his father, war correspondent Negley Farson, who chronicled his own journey made in 1929 in Caucasian Journey and succeeded - where his father failed -in crossing the Klukhor Pass. The author has also written Soho in the Fifties and Limehouse Days .