Excerpt from The Dancer of Shamahka<br><br>I thank you very much for having allowed me to read these pages from your memories.<br><br>You have put into these descriptions and tales the same charm that exhales from your eyes and your gestures. I do not know what subtle art is hidden beneath your perfect simplicity but you have known how to paint with a word the dawns and the sunsets of the Caucasus and to reveal a thousand secrets of Nature and of life.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.