Table of Contents

List of Maps; * Preface; * Acknowledgments; Prologue: A (New) Caucasian Chalk Circle (or: There Dwell Dragons); Part One; 1. The Quest for Gamsakhurdia; 2. Blinking Briefly at a Complex History; 3. The Rise, Rule, Retirement, and Return of the Silver Fox; 4. The Fall of Zugdidi; Part Two; 5. An Iberian Interregnum; 6. (Muslim) Georgia on My Mind; 7. Storm Clouds over Sukhumi; 8. The Wretched Riviera and the Death of a Friend; Part Three; 9. Sarajevo by the Sea; 10. Black Sea Refugee; 11. Aftermath in the Mountains; Part Four; 12. Chaos in the Caucasus; 13. Bridge Across the Inguri; A Never-Ending Epilogue (or: Trying to Close a Chalk Circle); Index.