The Exploration of the Caucasus
Subtitle: Volume 1
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: December 25, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781402186530
Subjects: Games / Travel Games; Travel / General
First sentence: IN the Old World of the West-the orbis veteribus notus of our atlases-the World of the Bible and the Classics-there were only two great mountainranges whose crests pierced into the region of eternal snow, and sent down streams of ice-those Miracles of Nature, as a mediaeval scholar aptly called glaciers-among the forests and the cornfields of the valleys.