A Passage to Nuristan: Exploring the Mysterious Afghan Hinterland

This is the story of three young westerners—a Briton, an American and a German—who in 1960 set out to penetrate a land that few westerners had set eyes on. Unable to rely on maps and with little information on what would confront them, they were guided step by precarious step into the unknown world previously immortalized by Kipling's The Man Who Would be King. This is the contemporary record—now published for the first time—of an extraordinary journey.

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A Passage to Nuristan: Exploring the Mysterious Afghan Hinterland

This is the story of three young westerners—a Briton, an American and a German—who in 1960 set out to penetrate a land that few westerners had set eyes on. Unable to rely on maps and with little information on what would confront them, they were guided step by precarious step into the unknown world previously immortalized by Kipling's The Man Who Would be King. This is the contemporary record—now published for the first time—of an extraordinary journey.

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A Passage to Nuristan: Exploring the Mysterious Afghan Hinterland

A Passage to Nuristan: Exploring the Mysterious Afghan Hinterland

A Passage to Nuristan: Exploring the Mysterious Afghan Hinterland

A Passage to Nuristan: Exploring the Mysterious Afghan Hinterland

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Overview

This is the story of three young westerners—a Briton, an American and a German—who in 1960 set out to penetrate a land that few westerners had set eyes on. Unable to rely on maps and with little information on what would confront them, they were guided step by precarious step into the unknown world previously immortalized by Kipling's The Man Who Would be King. This is the contemporary record—now published for the first time—of an extraordinary journey.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845111755
Publisher: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Publication date: 03/28/2006
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.32(w) x 9.41(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Sir Nicholas Barrington served in the British Embassy in Kabul from 1959 to 1961. Joseph T. Kendrick was political officer to the American Embassy in the late 1950s and Reinhard Schlagintweit was posted to West Germany's Embassy in Kabul from 1958 to 1961. Sandy Gall produced an acclaimed television documentary on Afghanistan, Behind Russian Lines.

Table of Contents

Preface
• Introduction
• Maps
• Account of a Journey to Two Valleys in Nuristan in July 1960
• Report on the Sefid Posh
• Reflections: Nicholas Barrington, Reinhard Schlagintweit, Joseph T. Kendric
• Annexes: Summary History of Afghanistan, Origins of the Nuristanis
• Selected Bibliography

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