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102 years old,

Lesley Blanch dies on the last Monday

She was world-known as writer, traveler and adventure-seeker. One of Ms. Blanchs well-known book is the “The Sabres of Paradise”, a life of Imam Shamyl, a 19th-century Muslim leader in the Caucasus who fought off Russian encroachment there ...

More in the nytimes.com: Lesley Blanch, an English writer and traveler best known

By MARGALIT FOX Published: May 11, 2007

For lots more on Lesley Blanch, visit LesleyBlanch.com.

Lesley Blanch Obituaries News Telegraph Lesley Blanch, who died on Monday aged 102, was the author of The Wilder Shores of Love, an enduringly popular account of the romantic fulfilment that four 19th-century European women found in Arabia; but her most romanticised creation was Lesley Blanch herself.

Lesley Blanch Obituaries Guardian Unlimited Books Lesley Blanch, writer, adventurer, journalist and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has died aged 102, leaving us 11 highly coloured volumes of ...

Twilight on the Caucasus

by S. Z. Ahmed

This book cites 10 books:

The Sabres of Paradise by Lesley Blanch
The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus by JOHN BADDELEY
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
Russia Confronts Chechnya : Roots of a Separatist Conflict by John B. Dunlop
Twilight on the Caucasus by S. Z. Ahmed
Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1700 by Erik Hildinger
Russian Literature and Empire : Conquest of the Caucasus from Pushkin to Tolstoy (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) by Susan Layton
Allah's Mountains : Politics and War in the Russian Caucasus by Sebastian Smith
The Making of the Georgian Nation by Ronald Grigor Suny
A Captive of the Caucasus by Andrei Bitov

Caucasus: Mountain Men and Holy Wars
by Nicholas Griffin
Link: Look inside the book

Caucasus : A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam
by Nicholas Griffin
Link: Look inside the book


Volume 51, Number 4 · March 11, 2004 (The New York Review of Books)
Mysteries of the Caucasus
by Christian Caryl

BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE

Stories I Stole
by Wendell Steavenson
Grove, 277 pp., $24.00

The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire
by Khassan Baiev, with Ruth and Nicholas Daniloff
Walker, 376 pp., $26.00

Caucasus: Mountain Men and Holy Wars
by Nicholas Griffin
Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, 240 pp., $24.95

Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War
by Thomas de Waal
New York University Press, 336 pp., $35.00

Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory
by Yo'av Karny
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 436 pp., $15.00 (paper)

Another Book-Links:
Ali and Nino : A Love Story by Kurban Said
Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory by Yo'av Karny
Caucasus : A Journey to the Land between Christianity and Islam by Nicholas Griffin
The Girl from the Golden Horn by Kurban Said
The Sabres of Paradise : Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, Revised Edition by Lesley Blanch
The Orientalist : Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life by Tom ReissExplore Similar Items: in Books

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* Tough Questions Ahead for Russia

Hans Heiner Buhr aus dem Kaukasus war von diesem Buch äußerst fasziniert: Lesley Blanch: The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, Revised Edition

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