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Burnes, Alexander

Cabool : A Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City in the years 1836, 37 and 38

Reprint 1986 Karachi. Good in dw pp317.

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Byron, Robert

The Road to Oxiana

Second Edition hardback John Lehmann Ltd, Library of Art and Travel. In very good condition with DW. 1950 292 pages. Epic account of travel through Iran and Afghanistan.
Robert Byron, who died young in the War, was the foremost travel writer of his age, acclaimed especially for 'The Road to Oxiana'. He was also a pioneer of Byzantine history, fought to save Georgian London, and was one of the first voices raised against fascism. Patrick Leigh Fermor readily admitted to being under his spell, and to Nancy Mitford he was the funniest man alive.
Byron found his voice at Eton in the early 1920s, sparring with Harold Acton and Brian Howard, Anthony Powell and Henry Green, and at Oxford where he was one of the gilded set immortalized by Evelyn Waugh. A life of travel followed; it took him to the monastic republic of Mount Athos, to Lutyens' New Delhi, to the theocracy of Tibet. It was in Persia and Afghanistan that he forged the style of travel writing that remains dominant today. Clever and sensitive, he adored rows as much as gossip but nonetheless was irresistible to friends and rivals alike - not only the Mitfords but for instance John Betjeman, the Sitwells, and his editor Harold Macmillan.
When the ship carrying him to Cairo was torpedoed, days before his 36th birthday in 1941, his friends mourned the loss of one of the brightest stars of their generation.

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Byron, Robert

Road To Oxiana

Folio Society edition in slip case. Attractively decorated front hardback cloth cover with turquoise lozenges against a cobalt blue background cloth. Published in 2000.

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Carter, Peers

Truth and Tragedy of the Soviet Occupation

Afghanistan Support Committee booklet 12 pages circa 1985.

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Caroe Olaf

The Pathans 550BC-1957AD

521pp. Index. 12 plates and 6 maps. The author was the last British Governor of the North-West Frontier Province.   Very good and signed presentation copy  which has the following inscription:  “Ex Oriente lux (from the East (comes) the light) In token of many great comradeship among Pathans- Olaf Caroe” . 1958 Macmillan first edition.

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C-. J Charpentier

Bazaar-E Tashqurghan: Ethnographical Studies in an Afghan Traditional Bazaar (Studia ethnographica Upsaliensia) (Paperback)

Black and white plates and text. This was a traditional medieval bazaar in Afghanistan with a beautifully carved wooden roof. During the war with the Soviets this bazaar was partially destroyed and the remainder was destroyed in the late 1990s during the war between the Northern Alliance and Taliban. 193 pages. 1972.

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Chavis, Melody Ermachild

Meena Heroine of Afghanistan

279 pages paperback. Meena founded the Revloutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan in 1977 as a twenty year old Kabul Univ student. She was assassinated in 1987 and this is a compelling account of Meena’s struggle for democracy and women’s rights in Afghanistan.

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Chaliand Gerard

Report from Afghanistan

The Dynasty in Afghanistan and N.Afghanistan from 1040-1186. Published by Edinburgh Univ Press 1977 pages 196 in protected dw. Very good condition.

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Bowen, John Charles Edward

Plain Tales of the Afghan Border

French leftists first hand account of the Soviet occupation and the Afghan resistance. 112 pages 5 maps. The author compares the Saur revolution tactics of modernization reform such as land distribution to that of the Khmer rouge. Viking Press New York paperback 1982.

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Chisti, Nighat Mehroze

Constitutional Developments in Afghanistan

178 pages hardback in dust wrapper, new but dust wrapper is slightly crinkled. The book
evaluates the laws at the time of Timur Shah, Sher Ali up to the first Afghan Constitution in
1923 up until the fourth constitution in 1977.