Description
Detailed map of showing the tracks of Douglas Freshfield’s routes 1868 and 1887 through the Caucasus.
Freshfield led an exploration of the Caucasus and was the first man, officially, to conquer Kazbek with guides from the village Gergeti. He described the denuded territories of Abkhazia in a moving chapter on ‘The Solitude of Abkhazia’, in The Exploration of the Caucasus published in 1896.
