However, the content is that of a rich, old-school history text, fact-heavy and chronologically ordered with a suitably bewildering cast of kings and battles. Lavishly illustrated with the author’s colour photos taken on various visits to the region over the past decade, the heavy gloss paper gives the feel of a coffee table book. To call Baumer’s book ‘weighty’ is no understatement (in a very literal sense), as my postman will testify. The book’s inner back page sleeve and map roughly show the area covered. The Caspian Post couldn’t wait to take a look at Volume 1, subtitled “At the Crossroads of Empires,” and talk to Dr. As if writing his four-volume history of Central Asia wasn’t monumental enough, the explorer-historian has now published the first of two volumes covering the Caucasus. The first volume takes the reader from pre-history to the Seljuk conquests of around 1050CE.Ĭhristoph Baumer certainly doesn’t shy away from tough tasks. Christoph Baumer’s History of the Caucasus.
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