Author: Lowell ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Beyond Khyber Pass
Author: Lowell ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Beyond Khyber Pass Into Forbidden Afghanistan
Author: Lowell ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Beyond the Khyber Pass
Author: John H. WallerPublisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Chronicles the wars of the 19th century in India and Afghanistan resulting in the siege of Kabul and the deaths of 16,000 British soldiers and their families.
The Khyber Pass
Author: Paddy DochertyPublisher: Union Square Press
ISBN: 1402756968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Thirty miles long, and in places no more than sixteen meters wide, the Pass is the principal route through the great mountain borderlands between India and Central Asia -- and the path of invasion for generations of conquerors. In this ground-breaking book, Paddy Docherty charts its remarkable story -- one which involves so many of the world's great leaders and civilizations, from the influential Persian kings to Alexander the Great, from the White Huns to Genghis Khan, not to mention the Ancient Greeks and countless tribes of nomads and barbarians. He paints an illuminating picture of mountain warriors and religious visionaries, artists, poets and scientists as well as describing how around the Pass emerged three of the great world religions -- Buddhism, Sikhism and Islam. He also depicts the Pass' more modern significance as a lawless region of gunsmiths, drug markets and as a terrorist hideout. Just a few years after the Soviet Union was defeated by the Afghan Mujahideen, many thousands of soldiers from the United States, Britain and other nations are struggling to control Afghanistan. Through his own travels in this true frontier region Paddy Docherty brings this epic history into the twenty-first century.
Beyond Khyber Pass
Author: Lowell ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Beyond Afghanistan
Author: Ray Madeline Van DintherPublisher: Ray Van Dinther
ISBN: 1475270143
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Includes original 1970 photographs A first hand account of the 1970, 1971 journey made by two British Art Students, who travelled and lived in a kombi van for five months driving overland from England through Europe, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, then on by public transport through Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, New Guinea to Australia. With minimal money, little food and less knowledge together with no experience of the countries they would visit, they departed with unreliable maps and the confidence of the young to countries only briefly imagined previously. The matter of fact, tongue in cheek narrative belies the risks they encountered during their travels.. Once committed to the journey there was no opportunity to turn back. They were Immersed in the varying cultures, living day by precarious day as they made their way from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere through some of the most volatile countries on the planet.
Beyond any Limits
Author: Gerd Joe FesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3739234334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The novel is set in the period marked by the youth protest of the late 60s, more precisely in the hippie and drug movement, which was part of this also international youth revolt. The main character of the story is named Tobias. He joins this youth protest and gets involved in the drug and hippie movement around 1970, moves into a rural commune, gains experience in "free love," consumes and deals psychoactive drugs, especially hashish, sometimes also LSD. Tobias meets the attractive Nina. She injects herself with heroin. Tobias enters into a liaison with her, and the two decide to take a trip together to Afghanistan, India, Nepal, and Goa. Nina manages to stop injecting heroin before they leave. Overland, with stops in Istanbul, southern Turkey, and Afghanistan, among other places, the two arrive in India. There, after a short stay in Amritsar, the couple is first drawn to Kashmir, where they make the acquaintance of a few Indian begging monks called sadhus. At their invitation, they accompany them to a remote and paradisiacal Himalayan valley. There they witness the passing and burial of a wise Hindu guru. They then travel on via Delhi, the Taj Mahal, and Varanasi to Kathmandu in Nepal. On the way, Tobias becomes seriously ill with a fever, but recovers. After their stay in Nepal, the journey takes them via Surat and Bombay to Goa. They stay in the hippie commune there for a few months until Nina becomes pregnant and they both decide to return to Europe. Again via Delhi and Amritsar, they reach Peshawar and then Kabul. A side trip to Bamiyan and the lakes of Band-e-Amir is made. They take some dope with them and smuggle it across the Afghan-Persian and subsequent borders. Once back in Europe, a stop is made first in Istanbul and then in Dubrovnik. In Dubrovnik, they meet a traveling street juggler originally of Czech descent. Nina suffers a miscarriage. She and Tobias return to Germany via Italy. In Germany, they learn that their old house-sharing community no longer exists and that many of their former companions have left the movement which as a whole is showing signs of disintegration. The paths of Nina and Tobias then separate, at first tentatively, and they look around for a new way to live.
The Century
Author: Continent
Author: Proceed to Peshawar
Author: George J HillPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 161251328X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Proceed to Peshawar is a story of adventure in the Hindu Kush Mountains and of a previously untold military and naval intelligence mission during World War II by two American officers along 800 miles of the Durand Line, the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They passed through the tribal areas and the princely states of the North-West Frontier Province, and into Baluchistan. This appears to be the first time that any American officials were permitted to travel for any distance along either side of the Durand Line. Many British political and military officers believed that India would soon be free, and that the Great Game between Russia and Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would then come to an end. Some of them thought that the United States should, and would, assume Britain’s role in Central Asia, and they wanted to introduce America to this ancient contest.