The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad

by Sheila Paine

Book Overview

Intrigued by an exquisite and mysterious amulet on an antique dress from Kohistan, 'land of mountains' in Pakistan, Sheila Paine began an epic quest that took her from the peaks of the Himalaya to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031211236X
• ISBN13: 9780312112363
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

The best travel book I ever read!

Ms Paine is a thoughtful and even heroic travel writer. As a woman of 60 traveling alone through some of the parts of the world hostile to women (e.g. Pakistan, Iran) somehow she manages to report with deep understanding and delicate humor. A great read.