About this Event
Bush House (SE) 1.01
Journalist and non-fiction author Tom Parfitt will give an illustrated talk about his memoir, High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland (Headline, 2024), and the epic 1,000-mile journey on foot that he describes in the book, from Sochi on the Black Sea to Derbent on the Caspian.
In High Caucasus, Tom offers a personal interpretation of the North Caucasus region and its troubled history, or as fellow author Philip Marsden put it: "a drill-down into the deepest layers of human experience – collective memory and individual survival, the legacy of horror and the joy of healing".
In his talk, Tom will tell us how his experience of reporting on the 2004 Beslan school siege led to him undertake the walk across seven republics, including Chechnya – both as a means of coming to terms with what he had seen, and an attempt to understand what lay behind the terror.
Event venue & nearby stays
Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London, United Kingdom
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