A review by pearseanderson
The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus by Charles King

3.0

I started this on the plane home from Italy, and six months later I almost dozed off trying to get through the conclusion to this piece. The history was dense, intense, and full of names and places, but often frustratingly so. I'm not sure how much I learned by the end, and how much this could have taught me. The pacing was strange (but the reveal that 25% of the book was notes and indexes was SO lovely when I realized how close I was to finishing) and the jumps between sections or types of history (mountaineering to political, without stopping over at economic or feminist histories) was also strange. 6/10.