RT Journal A1 Hall WJ T1 THe intervention of saint george JF JAMA JO JAMA YR 2009 FD May 27 VO 301 IS 20 SP 2076 OP 2077 DO 10.1001/jama.2009.676 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.676 AB The “here” of our destination is the Caucasus, a region of enormous strategic importance for all of recorded history. The high mountain valleys and navigable rivers form an essential passageway through the Caucasus mountain ranges along the Great Silk Road linking China and the Mediterranean for thousands of years. And so my own Silk Road odyssey begins.