Silk Road Books & Photos

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Newby, Eric

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

1958, London. First edition Hardback edition, two       folding maps, pp 247, in very good condition. Signed by Author in dw which has suffered from some paper loss. Author died in 2006 and this is a rare inscribed copy.

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Eric Newby

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

1958, London. First edition Hardback edition, two       folding maps, pp 247, in very good
condition. Author died in 2006.
'That cook's going to die,' said Thesiger; 'hasn't got a coat and look at his feet. We're 9,000 feet if we're an inch here. How high's the Chamar Pass?' We told him 16,000 feet. 'Get yourself a coat and boots, do you hear?' he shouted in the direction of the camp fire.
After two hours the chickens arrived; they were like elastic, only the rice and gravy were delicious....
'England's going to pot,' said Thesiger, as Hugh and I lay smoking the interpreter's king-size cigarettes, the first for a fortnight. 'Look at this shirt, I've only had it three years, now it's splitting. Same with tailors; Gull and Croke made me a pair of whipcord trousers to go to the Atlas Mountains. Sixteen guineas - wore a hole in them in a fortnight. Bought half a dozen shotguns to give to my headmen, well-known make, 20 guineas apiece, absolute rubbish.'
He began to tell me about his Arabs. 'I give them powders for worms and that sort of thing.' I asked him about surgery. 'I take off fingers and there's a lot of surgery to be done. They're frightened of their own doctors because they're not clean.'
'Do you do it? Cutting off fingers?'
'Hundreds of them,' he said dreamily, for it was very late. 'Lord yes. Why, the other day I took out an eye. I enjoyed that. Let's turn in.'
The ground was like iron with sharp rocks sticking up out of it. We started to blow up our air-beds. 'God, you must be a couple of pansies,' said Thesiger.
SOURCE: The Observer Travel

253

Nichols, Robert

Settling the Frontier

Land law and Society in the Peshawar Valley 1500-1900. Hardback in mint condition. Oxford University Press. 2001 with dw. First Edition.

254

Nichols Robert

A History of Pashtun Migration 1775-2006

350 pages, 2008 Oxford Univ Press.

255

Norfolk Simon

Afghanistan Chronotopia

Dewi Lewis Publishing 2002 Hardback in very good dust wrapper. Large coffee table book.

256

O’Hanlon Michael E and Sherjan, Hassina

Toughing it out in Afghanistan

Softcover pages Brookings institute 2010.

257

Oliver E E

Across the Border or Pathan or Biloch

Chapman and Hall Publishers 1890, hardback illustrated by J L Kipling 1890n first edition 344 pages.

258

Paine, Sheila

Afghan Amulet

First Edition in dw 1994. THE STORY OF PAINE'S 2 YEAR SOJOURN TO THE HIGH VALLEYS OF THE HINDU KUSH IN NORTHERN PAKISTAN, IN SEARCH OF AN INTRIQUING AMULETIC EMBROIDERY PATTERN RELEVANT TO HER WORK AS A TEXTILE EXPERT.
CONTENTS

1. KOHISTAN - CHITRAL KALASH PESHAWAR

2.INDUS - THE HIGHWAY ALAI INDUS KOHISTAN DASU GHILAS GILGIT PALAS MONENJO-DARO

3.MAKRAN - THE TRAIL QUETTA TURBAT THE VILLAGES GWADAR THE MINDER MAND CHRISTMAS 

4.IRAN - ZAHEDAN CHAR BAHAR THE ZOROASTRIANS SHIRAZ BANDAR ABBAS QESHM ISFAHAN TABRIZ THE KURDS

5. AFGHANISTAN - QUETTA AGAIN KANDAHAR KABUL MAZAR-I SHARIF JALALABAD

6.KURDISTAN - ISTANBUL DIYARBAKIR ZAKHO YEZIDIS

7.THE BLACK SEA - ANATOLIA TRABZON

8.BULGARIA - BULGARISTAN - THE UKRANIANS VARNA RAZGRAD

259

Paiva, Roland and Dupaigne Bernard

Afghan Embroidery

Hardback in dw mint, by Ferozons Lahore Pakistan 1996. Illustrated throughout with photos. 131 pages with 26 pages of script and two maps.

260

Palmer, Louis

Adventures in Afghanistan

2007 paperback, 35 pages by Ghazni Governate Afghanistan. Details of sites in Ghazni such as the citadel, Minarets and Sufi saints’ mausoleums. Very good condition.