The Light Garden of the Angel King

£12.99

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 Greece, Alexander the Great's extreme fortresses in the East like Ay Khanoum, today in northeastern Afghanistan. A world that was shattered to pieces by the Soviet invasion is brought back to us by a beautifully written and extremely well researched book. It is also an affectionate portrait of Chatwin and is accompanied by Chatwin's photos.