Silk Road Books & Photos

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Schultheis Rob

Night Letters Inside Wartime Afghanistan

1992 pages 155 pages dust wrapper in hardback Orion publishers. Account of travels into Afghanistan under Soviet Occupation. The author travel to Jegdelek from which Soviet troops were ejected by the Mujahedin after a day of occupation. “Jegdelek was proud of its history of resistance and rebellion. Back in the winter of 1842(sic), during the first Anglo Afghan War, the local tribesmen trapped an entire British Army in the gorges to the north and annihilated it. Only one man, a Doctor Brydon, survived to tell the tale... You could still find bits of bone and bullets, and uniforms inscribed VR Victoria Regina on the steep slopes below the town."

302

Scott, B George

Afghan And Pathan A Sketch

Mitre Press, 188 pages and one plate showing Ghurkhas on the march in Waziristan 1929.

303

Seargeant Emma

Afghanistan

Illustrating Emma Seargeant's paintings and drawings produced of Afghan refugees in a Pakistani refugee camp. This book was privately published by the Oxbridge educated painter and ex girlfriend of the Pashtun Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan. There is also a price list of Seargeants' art enclosed in the book.

304

Shah, Saira

The story tellers daughter return to a lost homeland

Account of journeys to Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and after the fall of the Taliban. The author is the granddaughter of the Nawab of Sardhana whose family were exiled from Afghanistan for siding with Shah Shuja in 1839. Hardback 1st edition in dust wrapper. 2003.

305

Shah, Sardar Iqbal Ali

Golden Pilgrimage

1933. First Edition. Hardback. Good
Condition.

306

Shah, Sirdar Ikbal Ali

Modern Afghanistan

Sampson Low with dust wrapper which has suffered some loss in very good condition. First UK edition.

307

Shah, Sirdar Ikbal Ali

Afghanistan of the Afghans

BOOK CONDITION: Corner cloth with marginal wear, very tight clean copy, spine slightly faded due to age/sun shine. Not Ex library, no ownership inscriptions or other pen marks.Very Good condition. First Edition. Read more

308

Shah S M

Trade with Afghanistan

Hardback good condition. Published in 1946 Rippon Printing Press, Lahore, British India detailing Afghanistans' commerce. 103pp. Minor damage to spine.

309

Shahrani Nazif M

The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan Adaptation to Closed Frontiers

Paperback mint condition first paperback edition with preface and epilogue. Univ of Washington Press. This book was first published in 1979 thereafter the Wakhi had to adapt to the Soviet Invasion and resettlement near Lake Van amongst distrustful Kurds in Eastern Turkey. Pages 302.

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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.