To Catch a Tartar: Notes from the Caucasus - Hardcover

Chris Bird

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About the Author

Chris Bird was expelled from Oxford University and later from Belgrade where he was based as the Guardian's Balkans correspondent during the war in Kosovo. Before that he was the Caucasus correspondent for Agence France-Presse and then Associated Press, and lived in Tbilisi with his family. He is now a medical student in London. To Catch a Tartar is his first book.

Review

'A captivating read' -- Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times 'Instructive and erudite' -- New Statesman 'Bird [has] tackled with courage and intelligence a region which has always fascinated Westerners by its physical beauty and by the spirit of its peoples' -- Times Literary Supplement 'Highly readable' -- Literary Review

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9780719565069: To Catch a Tartar: Notes from the Caucasus

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ISBN 10:  0719565065 ISBN 13:  9780719565069
Publisher: John Murray Pubs Ltd, 2003
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