Silk Road Books & Photos

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Khan, Muhammad Nawaz

Ali Mardan Khan’s Garden Villa and the Flag Staff House on Peshawar Cantonment

Book by editor of Gandhara Times a valuable contribution to the Mughal heritage of NWFP. There are colour photos of the Mughal Governor’s villa and a good description of the artistic merits of the building as well as historical travelers accounts of the Villa and surrounding Mughal garden.8 plates, one map and 26 pages, softcover in very good condition.1998 Peshawar Pakistan.                                                                                  

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Khan, Muhammad Nawaz

The Valiant Scouts The Frontier Corps (NWFP)

144 pages paperback in original card cover, published by the Frontier Corps 1997, Balahissar Peshawar, first edition of 1000 copies. The foreword by  Lt Col Cobb OBE states “These units were often referred to as the Frontier Militias as they were in most cases recruited locally as militia they were not always permanently embodied and liberal   periods of leave enabled them to attend to the cultivation of their own lands.”   In relation to the Khyber rifles the book writes:  “In the chequered history of this Corps with its headquarters at Landi Kotal may be reflected the control of the Khyber pass inhabited by the formidable Afridi tribe. Its history goes back a long way to the “Khyber Jezailchees” an irregular body of tribal “sharp shooters” with a reputation for marksmanship from which it was formed in 1878.”                                         

£20

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Khattak, Prof Raj Wali Shah

An Intangible Heritage The Walled City of Peshawar

2005 InterLit Foundation 93 pages in original card covers.   

£20

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Marshall, John

A Guide to Taxila

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Sylvia A Matheson

Tigers of Baluchistan

A woman's account of five years with the Bugti tribe first edition hardback with unclipped dustjacket published by arthur baker 1967.  Ex library, good condition.  illustrated and with maps. For five years the author lived in one of the world's hottest and most arid deserts among the bugtis, tradionally known as the tigers of baluchistand, who are the least known and most warlike of all the baluch tribes of west pakistan.The result is  a fascinating and very vivid eyewitness account.

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Mayne, Peter

Saints of Sind

Green cloth travels through the Sufi shrines of Sind. First Edition London. 1956 John Murray.

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Mayne Peter

Narrow Smile

First edition in dust wrapper 1950s account of travel to the North West Frontier. It is mostly about Pathans as individuals. It is also in part about cities - Peshawar.Kabul. and about villages.travel." Pp.264, frontis. maps of authors journey in West Pakistan and Afghanistan and showing the Paktun areas,12 pages of b/w photo plates.

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Mohmand Sher Mohammed Khan

Razmak the jewel of North Waziristan

Card cover pages 71.    

£35

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Mons, Barbara

High Road to Hunza

Faber dw Hardback 1958 pages 157.  A journey through Turkey, Iran, Syria and Jordan culminating in Hunza.                                                                                                            

£18

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Moraini Fosco

Where Four Worlds Meet

Climbing in Northern Pakistan with an epilogue detailing a visit to Kalash of Kafiristan. Hamish Hamilton publishers 1964 1st edition. London. Chapters on Karachi, inrelude on Islam, Some talk on Alexander, the road from Peshawar, Gujur and Chitral, from Chitral to Base Camp, advance from Base Camp, final assault, on the trail of Dionysus in Asia: An epilogue n the Kalash Kafirs. Pages 290. Very good copy hardback.                                                                          

£20