Silk Road Books & Photos

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Curzon, Marquess of Kedleston

Tales of Travel

Covers Afghanistan on pages 39-84 including a folding letter signed by Amir Abdur Rahm an.344 pages, 1923 first edition Hodder and Stoughton London. Acceptable.                               

£14

62

Dani, Ahmad Hasan

Peshawar Historic City of the Frontier

1995, Second  Edition. PP 320 in pictorial hard back. V.Good to fine condition. Published in ahore Pakistan.Illus with photos and maps.                                                            

£30

63

Dani, Ahmad Hasan

Islamic Architecture Wooden Style of Northern Pakistan

Hardback coffee table book illustrated with colour and black and white photos. Very good in rotected dw. Published 1989 National hijra Council Pakistan , over 100 colour and black and white plates. First  Edition.                                                                            

£45

64

Danziger, Nick

Beyond forbidden Frontiers

Very good account of travel through war torn Afghanistan with particular reference to the situation in Herat. Hardback in dust wrapper very good condition.                                        

£20

65

Danziger       Nick

Beyond forbidden Frontiers

Signed hardback first edition by “Nick”.                                                                                

£20

66

Davidson Anders and Hjukstrom Peter

Afghanistan Aid and the Taliban Challenges on the eve of the 21st Century

Conference in Islamabad by Swedish Committee for Afghanistan 1999. Article by N H Dupree on Social Challenges past and present, Anthony Hyman on Afghanistan and rival foreign policies, Oliver Roy on Ideological and Sociological background of the Afghan Taliban and two other articles and panel discussion. In original card cover. Printed in Sweden.                               

£30

67

Dawlaty, Harlan and Owens

The Economics of Grape Production in the Koh Daman Valley of Afghanistan

Kabul Univ Faculty of Agriculture Nov 1967. 32 pages 6 black and white plates.               

£25

68

De Baer Rudston

Afghan Interlude

Largely taken from Dustwrapper blurb:
Four cambridge undergraduates decided to spend the long vacation in Afghanistan, and organised themselves into an expedition. Its ostensible purpose was to find a mountain in the Hindu Kush whihc had got mislaid. Equipped with a Landrover and a mass of stores by British Firms which admired their initiative, the four young men launched themselves upon the unknown. This entertaining book describes their adventures. They meet ambassadors, a teenage village prostitute and nomad tribesmen. They learn about Afghan politics and the game of buzkashi..They become adept at bargaining for visas, petrol, horses or sheep skin hats. One of them who owns a butter-fly net is of course taken for a spy. Where ever they go - Kabul, Faisabad, the Boharak plain - they are alive to the shapes and colours, the people and the customs of this little-known country. Afghan Interlude is an observant, friendly, high-spirited book - a fitting memorial to the enterprise of the author and his companions.

P157 describes a four hundred year old battle memorial stone: " A white stone its flat surface facing westwards and overgrown with fungus, lay before us. Under the fungus could just be discerned some writing which was ..an inscription written in Arabic script and which we therefore assumed to be in Persian, and to be a discovery of no more importance. It was only when we returned to England that we found out that the inscription was probably in Arabic and that it appeared to be a memorial stone of some battle which had taken place there in about the sixteenth century. The script was so ornate and the inscription so worn that neither we nor Ata, who had come with us, could make anything of it. We returned to Faisabad disappointed, feeling that the afternoon's ride had been in vain, and the ride back seemed endless: we did not realize that our photos of the Sang e Sefid would excite so much interest in England".

1955 in dw, two maps 12 photo plates. First Edition Chatto and Windus, London 1957.  

£20

69

Debets, G.F-

Physical Anthropology of Afghanistan:I-II

Peabody Museum Cmbridge Massachusetts, USA. 1970. This edition only covers volume five no.1. Includes black and white anthropological photos of Afghan men. Good condition, paperback.  Illustrations and notes by Louis Dupree.                                   

£35

70

Docherty, Leo

Desert of Death A Soldier’s journey from Iraq to Afghanistan

Faber and Faber publishers pages 192 first edition London. Account of Amry officer’s tour in Afghanistan where he thinks the British will repeat the same pattern of mistakes that the USSR had made and so leaves the armed forces. 2007.                                                  

£15