Search Results for ‘Afghanistan’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 10 matches found

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

After the War Newby starts working in the London haute couture trade but he realises the fashion business isn't for him and leaves for Nuristan! As Evelyn Waugh puts it in the Preface, Newby shows "the...

Bad Lands

Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet, travelled through some of the world’s most repressive and dangerous regimes. Wheeler says, “When Mr Bush produced his ‘Axis of Evil’ list, my first thought was...

Danziger's Travels

After walking and hitch-hiking through southern Turkey and the ayatollah's Iran, Danziger entered Afghanistan illegally in the wake of a convoy of Chinese weapons and spent two months dodging Russian...

The Bookseller of Kabul

For more than twenty years, Sultan Khan defied the authorities to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was then arrested, interrogated and improsooned, and watched illiterate soldiers burn piles...

The Light Garden of the Angel King

A new edition of Peter Levi's account of his travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin in 1970. As a classical scholar and archaeologist his desire was to visit sites of Greek archaeology outside mainland...

The Road to Oxiana

This the diary Byron kept while travelling through Persia and Afghanistan in 1933-34. With lots of detail and deep insight, Byron provides us with a vivid account of the people and places he comes across...

The Way of the World

Part candid description of a road journey, part a meditation on travel, this is the tale of a life-enhancing journey taken in the 1950s from Geneva to the Khyber Pass on very little money. When Nicolas...

Descent into Chaos

In “Descent into Chaos”, celebrated journalist and leading expert on Central Asia and extremism Ahmed Rashid explains why he believes the US-led ‘War on Terror’ is failing to prevent the spread and...

Magic Bus

In the 1960s hundreds of thousands of young Westerners, inspired by Kerouac and the Beatles, blazed the 'hippie trail' overland from Istanbul to Kathmandu in search of enlightenment and a bit of cheap...

The Kite Runner

Amir, an illiterate Afghan boy growing up in 1970’s Kabul, befriends his father’s servant’s son from the despised Hazara minority. Now a 40-year-old novelist living in California Amir narrates his childhood...