THE CAUCASUS-the pearl of the East.
The ancients called it “the ring of mountains which encircles the earth, as a marriage ring does a finger,” and today the poets of the East have named it “the land of tongues and of miracles,” for the languages of these mountains are innumerable, and the miracles that are related in these languages are without end.
This book is an attempt to describe that strange and peculiar world on the basis of my own and of other people’s experience…
~ Essad-Bey