Search Results for ‘Afghanistan’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Travel Writing’ - 8 matches found

An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan

Elliot first visited the country as a teenager during the war with the Soviet Union. On this visit he travelled with the mujaheddin, on later visits he travelled independently. Afghanistan is a country...

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 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...

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 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...