A Passage to Nuristan: Exploring the Mysterious Afghan Hinterland

by Joseph T. Kendrick, Nicholas Barrington, Reinhard Schlagintweit

A first hand account of extraordinary travel, it is a reminiscent of "Short Walk in the Hindu Kush". This book about Afghanistan is highly topical. Despite its recent upheavals, for most of the twentieth century Afghanistan was a sleepy, faraway place of little interest to outsiders. Nowhere was the romance and mystery attached to the country more dramatically expressed than in its Nuristan region (formerly Kafiristan - Land of Infidels). Here,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845111753
• ISBN13: 9781845111755
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"