King, Peter: Afghanistan: Cockpit in High Asia

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King, Peter : Afghanistan: Cockpit in High Asia

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1966

First edition, in very good condition, in a very good unclipped dust jacket(25s) scuffed at edges and now in protective plastic sleeve, original grey clothboards with red blocking to spine, 234 pages including index, double page map and 25 pages of b/w photo illustrations by the author, grey endpapers. Contents include: Eastwards from London;Kabul; Power Politcs in Kabul; Trenchermanship and Religion; The Pushtunistan Dispute; Basis of the New Afghanistan; Afghan Falstaff - Sardar Faiz Muhammed Khan; Kohistan and Paghman; Mazar-i-Sherief; The Western Capital; Nomads; Ghot, Home of the Champions - witchcraft and superstition; Zaminderwar and Kandahar; water for the thirsty land; Education and upbringing; Nuristan, home of Aryans; Settling in Kabul; Snow, suffragettes and school; Westwards to Persia; Persian Escapades; Epilogue; Index.-----------"Author writes amusingly and perceptively giving an enthralling account of an unfamiliar but attracyive country whose strategic position is of some importance and which has only just (in 1965) adopted parliamentry democracy."

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KING, Peter : Afghanistan. Cockpit in High Asia

Geoffrey Bles, 1966

Fine/Fine. 1st Edition.

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Geoffrey Bles, 1966

Very good indeed in the original grey boards, spine darkened.

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