A Dry Ship to the Mountains: Down the Volga and Across the Caucasus in My Father's Footsteps
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... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0140166599
ISBN13:9780140166590
Release Date:January 1995
Publisher:Penguin Group
Length:246 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
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Daniel Farson had a lifelong yearning to complete his father's 1929 attempt to cross the Klukhor Pass in the Caucasus on horseback. At 64, 'abominable unhealthy', he determined to try. His expedition in 1991 coincided with the coup, and he describes the journey down the Volga aboard the "Pipkin" as the coup broke all around. When he eventually reached the Caucasus, his arduous climb became fraught as the horses collapsed and the porters deserted him. However, he finally succeeded where his father had failed.
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