caucasus

Introduces the history, culture, and cuisine of Samarkand, Central Asia, and Caucasus. Offers recipes from soups to pilafs to drinks and desserts accompanied by instructions and photographs. Interspersed throughout the book are essays from the authors about their travels in the regions. Includes an index.

"In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andr?e was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, Andr?e was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle ... recounts Andr?e's harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man's determination in the face of a hopeless situation."--Provided by publisher.

A lamb asks the ice, sun, cloud, rain, earth, and grass who is the strongest one of all and reaches a surprising conclusion.