Top 10 Travel Books - Afghanistan (Page 1 of 1)
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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. £45 |
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Chaffetz, David |
A Journey through Afghanistan: A Memorial |
Chicago: Regenery Gateway 1982 254 pages. The author recalls a trip that he made to the Herat region in the mid 1970s when the war had not yet changed Afghan life FIRST EDITION.. £30 |
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Doubleday Veronica |
Three women of Herat |
1988 DUST wrapper, very good condition hardback 1ST Edition. Account of British woman’s training as a musician with three different female musicians in Herat during the 1970s. £25 |
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Elliot Jason |
An unexpected light |
A wonderful travel account set in Afghanistan before 1996 under the Mujahideen government, Kabul is under siege by the Taliban the Author is fluent in Persian (SOAS Graduate) and travels throughout Northern Afghanistan. At prayer in the mosque of Herat, an old man advises him on errors he made in his prayer performance and Elliot is touched with the gentle manner in which the old man explains Elliot’s mistakes. Elliot had expected to be harangued as an imposter in the mosque. This book became a best seller in the US and this is the first English Edition. £50 |
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Kaplan, Robert |
Soldiers of God |
1990 hardback in very good condition in dust wrapper. Travel with Kaplan as he ventures on a tour of guerilla warfare with the legendary Abdul Haq fighting an urban war against the Soviets with his ethnically diverse Mujahedin group encompassing Tajiks and Pashtuns. First Edition. £30 |
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King, Peter |
Afghanistan Cockpit in High Asia |
1966 first UK edition of a Pashtu speaking US citizen’s residence in Afghanistan for one year. £20 |
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Toynbee, Arnold |
Between the Oxus and the Jumna |
The famous British Historian travelled to Afghanistan in the 1960s and detailed the history of the cities he visited. Hardback first edition in dust wrapper. 1961. £25 |
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Murphy, Dervla |
Full Tilt |
Ireland to India with a Bicycle. First Edition in DW. Fine condition. The author travels through Afghanistan on bicycle and then later goes on to Swat valley an independent princely state and meets the Wali of Swat as well as the Pashtun President of Pakistan Ayub Khan. £25 |
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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 |
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Stewart, Rory |
The Places in Between |
Hardback first edition, third printing in mint dust wrapper by Picador publishers UK. £55 or signed copy for £125
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