A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Picador Books)

by EricNewby (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.40

  A humorous overview of Eric Newby's travels from Mayfair to the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul, offering insight into the numerous eccentric characters and adventures he met along the way, and descriptions of the spectacular wilderness of Afghanistan. Last published in 1981.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $6.59

  When Eric Newby, improbably earning his living in the London haute-couture trade, sent his fateful cable - 'Can You Travel Nuristan June?' - it was the first step on a legendary journey from Mayfair to Afghanistan and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul. Ill-prepared and inexperienced, Newby and Carless endured a month of hardship with great good humour in one of the most beautiful wildernesses on earth. 'The most successful travel writer of his generation. It's impossible to read this book without laughing aloud' - Observer . 'Tough, extrovert, humorous and immensely literate' - Times Literary Supplement . 'Full of serendipity and surprise' - The Economist . 'A total success' - New Yorker .