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An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
by Elliot, Jason
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0312288468
- ISBN 13
- 9780312288464
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About This Item
Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1999. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, near fine in orange and beige pictorial wraps. The account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people and culture, Elliot leaves the relative security of Kabul. He travels by foot and on horseback, and hitches rides on trucks that eventually lead him into the snowbound mountains of the North toward Uzbekistan, the former battlefields of the Soviet army's 'hidden war. ' Here the Afghan landscape kindles a recollection of the author's life ten years earlier, when he fought with the anti-Soviet mujaheddin resistance during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Weaving different Afghan times and visits with revealing insights on matters ranging from antipersonnel mines to Sufism, Elliot gives us a narrative mosaic of startling prose that captures perfectly the powerful allure of a seldom-glimpsed world. 473 pp.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43530
- Title
- An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan
- Author
- Elliot, Jason
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0312288468
- ISBN 13
- 9780312288464
- Publisher
- Picador USA, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1999
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- October 2001
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