Jai Imbrey

This inspiring book with its sumptuous embellishments is an immersive voyage through the rugged Caucasus to the Caspian Sea, including miniature mud volcanoes, a wealth of subtropical nature preserves, orchards, and tea plantations. It provides a window into Azerbaijan's two-thousand-year tradition of Caucasian rugs; light-as-air silk kelaghayi (scarves); intricate embroideries; musical instruments, some inlaid with mother-of-pearl; and delicately incised copperware,...