Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia – Wilfred Thesiger

I managed to get through Wilfred Thesiger’s memories of his travels on the Pakistan side of the Hindu Kush and of his first trip to Afghanistan but gave up half way through Nuristan 1. Diaries of day by day encounters with people and places in the 1950s record a world long gone. Very practical accounts, a lot less aggravating than Eric Newby‘s, but not particularly engrossing, even if you’ve been there ….

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