Caucasian Journey is a travel book written by the American foreign correspondent

Negley Farson James Scott Negley Farson (May 14, 1890 – December 13, 1960) was an American author and adventurer. A renowned fisherman, Farson wrote one of the classics of fishing literature, ''Going Fishing''. The story of his life is told in his two volume ...

, describing his journey in the mountains of the western

Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia. The Caucasus Mountains, including the Greater Caucasus range, have historically ...

in 1929. Farson undertook the journey in the company of

Alexander Wicksteed Alexander Wicksteed (6 September 1875 – 30 July 1935) was an English traveller and writer from St Pancras, London. Wicksteed, a Quaker, originally went to Soviet Russia to assist with famine relief, living there in the years after the October Rev ...

, a writer and adventurer. It was not until two decades after their expedition that Farson sat down with his notes in order to write the book. ''Caucasian Journey'' was initially published by Evans Brothers in 1951; Doubleday published an American edition as ''The Lost World of the Caucasus'' in 1958.Internet Archive
/ref> ''Caucasian Journey'' was reissued by

Penguin Books Penguin Books is a British publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.Colin Thubron Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, FRAS (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, ''The Times'' ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to ''The New York Review of Books'',Daniel Farson Daniel James Negley Farson (8 January 1927 – 27 November 1997) was a British writer and broadcaster, strongly identified with the early days of commercial television in the UK, when his sharp, investigative style contrasted with the BBC's mor ...

, used ''Caucasian Journey'' as the inspiration and motivation for his own journey through Russia, described in ''A Dry Ship to the Mountains'' (1994).

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