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Afghanistan Travel Literature (Page 4 of 8)

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Shalizi, Prita

Here and there in Afghanistan

An account of travelling in Afghanistan by the Indian Bride of the Afghan Minister of Tourism Abdul Sattar Shalizi in 1960s Afghanistan. Dept of Translation and Compilation Min of Education  Kabul 1968. Pages 105 in original card cover. Good condition.

£35

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Spain, James W.

THE WAY OF THE PATHANS

New mint hardback in dust wrapper. Oxford UNiv, Press Publication.

£25

33

Stark, Freya

Minaret of Djam

Hardback in very good condition with dw. Pages 99 account of the famous travellers trip by Landrover from Kabul to the Minaret of Djam and onto Herat. The author comes across various Ribats and graves alleged to be from the Companions of the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). John Murray London.

£35

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Street Lucie

Tent Pegs of Heaven

1967 Hardback in dustwrapper. First UK edition Robert Hale 189 pages signed by author.

£40

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Street Lucie

Tent Pegs of Heaven

Readers Union Edition Hardback in DW.

£10

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Toynbee, Arnold J

Between Oxus and Jumna

Hardback in dust wrapper excellent account of travel in Afghanistan during 1960 with commentary on the history by an eminent British Historian who saw Afghanistan as being on the cross roads of history. 1961 first edition 211 pages.

£20

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Wilson, Andrew

North From Kabul

8vo George Allen & Unwin 1961.  1st edition.  Colour frontispiece, 32 photographs and sketch map on endpapers.  Blue cloth.  199pp.

Afghanistan in the early '60s. The author was interested in the proposed Soviet all-weather road from the Oxus to Kabul and the impact of Soviet investment on Afghanistan in general so he travelled  up to the border to report on the progress the Russians were making. The author passed himself of as a Russian and hitched lifts with Afghan truck drivers. He met with icy receptions from Afghans at Chai Khanas since many of the ethnic groups in Northern Afghanistan include Central Asian people who fled massacres in Soviet Central Asia during the 1920s.  Very good clean copy.

£20

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Wilson, Matthew

The Land of War Elephants: Travels Beyond the Pale - Afghanistan, Pakistan and India

192 pages 2003 hardback in dust wrapper- NEW first Edition.

£15.50

1970s

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Chaffetz, David

A Journey through Afghanistan: A Memorial

Chicago: Regenery Gateway 1982 254 pages. The author recalls a trip that he made to the Herat region in the mid 1970s when the war had not yet changed Afghan life FIRST EDITION..

£30

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Doubleday Veronica

Three women of Herat

1988 DUST wrapper, very good condition hardback 1ST Edition. Account of British woman’s training as a musician with three different female musicians in Herat during the 1970s.

£25