The Narrow Smile: A Journey Back to the Northwest Frontier

by Peter Mayne

Book Overview

The Narrow Smile is a portrait of the Pathan and their highland home on either side of the Pakistan-Afghan frontier. Peter Mayne grew up in India, and later spent four years on the Northwest Frontier during the Second World War. Mayne delighted in the company of these fierce but hospitable highlanders, who were as hard as the mountains that assured their independence but democratic to the point that no man admitted the right of another to lead...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178060209X
• ISBN13: 9781780602097
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Eland Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"