Mention the Caucasus (COCK-uh-sus) mountains, and most people only know about the war in Chechnya (CHECH-nee-ah). But with multiple languages and ethnicities, there's a much bigger story to be told. How memory and geography define the extraordinary people who live in the Caucasus region.
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"Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory" (Rebroadcast)
Listen Monday, Jan. 15, 2001 at 1:06 p.m. in EnvironmentGuests
Yo'av Karny
journalist; author, "Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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