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Tony Anderson was born in 1950, read English at Oxford, and has taught languages both in Britain and abroad. He has worked as an editor and writer for television, books and theatre, and has recently edited works on Russian/Caucasian subjects. He lives in Somerset.
Think of the world's great backpacking paradises and the rugged, inhospitable terrain of former Soviet Georgia does not figure high on the list. Yet here is a world frozen in time, where many tribespeople live exactly as their ancestors have done for thousands of years. The routes are sometimes daunting but the scenery is majestic, and everywhere is the light of friendship. Traveller and TV writer Anderson writes in an eminently readable style about his varied journeys through Georgia and the Caucasus. He sets out to find if the region really is, as fabled, an impenetrable barrier from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea. Not only is it far from impenetrable but it is populated by wandering communities whose welcomes are always lavish and heartfelt. Here are mountain tribes who know little or nothing of modern civilisation, and who remain untouched by the political upheavals that have racked the Soviet Union. This is a real eye-opener of a book. (Kirkus UK)
