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Afghanistan : The Land that Was from Harry N Abrams Price: $45.00 |
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Storyteller's Daughter from Knopf Price: $16.32 Customer Review:  Saira Shah's stunning new memoir is one of those rare and wonderful books that's hard to classify because it touches the reader in so many different ways. A jewel of many facets -- from high adventure to geopolitics to the wisdom of the ages -- it takes us on a journey of the human spirit as... |
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Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia from Brassey's Inc Price: $21.56 Customer Review: it is a good book. and this good book has a good title - The Fragments of Grace. i live in new delhi and commute everyday to a 9-6 office. in the morning rush hour, as my bus crosses over the yamuna river, we always get stuck in a traffic jam....the buses in which I travel are always clogged tight... |
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Terrain Analysis of Afghanistan from East View Price: $250.75 Customer Review:
I have known Kent Lee and East View Cartographic since 1995, when they were instrumental in supporting... |
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The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan from Perennial Price: $10.46 Customer Review: Christina Lamb brings the reality of Afghanistan's pains through the years to life. She shares the history and lets you meet the people making history now in that part of the world. She makes you understand how they think and why they think and act as they do. Everyone should read this book to know... |
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The Road to Oxiana from Oxford University Press Price: $11.53 Customer Review: In my opinion this book belongs to the aristocracy of travel literature, that old tradition beginning with Erodoto's 'Historiai'. You can see all the nuances of the sky over the islamic temples and the ancient babylonian ruins the author decribes so well, taste the flavour of the tea offered around... |
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Afghanistan from Mariner Books Price: $50.00 Customer Review: In this exceptional volume Chris Steele-Perkins has distilled four separate travel adventures into an enormously effective photo-essay depicting Afghanistan at a time when the now ignominious Taliban were just taking hold of and consolidating their political power (c.1995). Although the book has as... |
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An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (Bestselling Backlist) from Picador USA Price: $12.24 Customer Review:  Afghanistan's current inaccessibility to Westerners presents a paradox of sorts: on the one hand, travelogues have a long tradition of providing armchair portraits of countries and people not easy visited, and on the other hand, in extreme cases such as contemporary Afghanistan, the difficulties in... |
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From Kashmir to Kabul: The Photographs of Burke and Baker, 1860-1900 from Prestel Publishing Price: $44.10 Customer Review: It is hard to believe that these beautiful pictures exist, they are such a superb window on to a world we know so little about. I expecially liked the informative captions that locate the photographs contextually and historically. As far as I know, there is nothing like it available on old India... |
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The Gem Hunter-True Adventures of an American in Afghanistan from Geovision, Inc. Price: $25.46 Customer Review: The Gem Hunter: True Adventures Of An American In Afghanistan is the personal memoir of an American man who spent thirty years seeking precious gems in the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan. His encounters with Afghan miners, freedom fighters, government officials, ethnic peoples, scientists, and... |
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Kabul: The Bradt Miniguide from Bradt Travel Guides Price: $9.71 Customer Review: The new Bradt Mini Guide to Kabul is a well written insider's view of Kabul. It offers the traveller everything he/she needs to know to survive and enjoy Kabul and its environs, from security concerns to the best espresso cafe. The content is informative and well-organized. The lively prose and... |
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Afghanistan International Travel Map from International Travel Maps Price: $9.95 Customer Review: I just returned to the United States after spending six months in Afghanistan. Maps of Afghanistan are plentiful, many are printed by military or United Nations organizations, but most maps are not of the entire country. ITL's map of Afghanistan covers the entire country and shows many of the small... |
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Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom from Wiley Price: $16.47 Customer Review: I saw the Court-TV production of CHASING FREEDOM this past Monday (Jan 19). Appropriately, it aired on Martin Luther King Day. It was the story of an Afghan women who fled to the US after escaping horrible treatment by the Taliban. When she came to the US, she was put into detention. It was a great... |
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Prisoners of Hope : The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan from Doubleday Customer Review: In August of 2001, we were introduced to American missionaries Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer. Each had accepted their calling into missions and was serving the people of Afghanistan. While many lives were changed as a result of their work, the Taliban arrested them for sharing their faith. For over... |
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Pakistan : In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $10.50 Customer Review: Much has been written about Pakistan since September 11th. But as Ms. Weaver points out in her wonderful book about the only Islamic Republic in the world, much harm could have been avoided if only we were more aware of this country and its problems BEFORE the terrorist attacks. Weaver's experiences... |
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The Light Garden of the Angel King: Travels in Afghanistan from Pallas Athene Publishers Price: $19.99 Customer Review: Peter Levi is himself a remarkable figure: An English Jesuit who is a poet, art historian, classicist,and sometime archaeologist. "Light Garden of the Angel King" is Levi's account of his travels in Afghanistan in the late 1960s as he looked for remnants of Greek presence and examined the influences... |
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Travels in Afghanistan (Equestrian Travel Classics) from Long Riders' Guild Press Price: $25.00 |
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Hammond Greater Middle East Region: Including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Turkey (Hammond Greater Middle East Region Map) from American Map Corporation Price: $4.95 |
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Blue Is the Colour of Heaven: A Journey into Afghanistan from Penguin Books Price: $10.46 |
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An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World from Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) Customer Review: I don't have much to say really, just that this book is rings with bold, naked, and humiliating truth and should be read by every American, especially those who step or even think of stepping off of their own shores. It's ridiculous that it's out of print. For anyone who has ever felt a desire to... |
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To Afghanistan and Back from ComicsLit Price: $10.85 Customer Review: I liked this book alot. But, the truth is that Ted could have made this book much much better simply by organizing it better. First things first, while it possibly looked interesting to the editors, I found it disjointing how the book was a little bit book, then a little bit comic then a little bit... |
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The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan. from Transatlantic Arts Customer Review: Freya Stark had an opportunity to visit this remote archaeological site when it was still possible to travel there. This book is the zenith of her prodigious work in that Afghanistan has always been associated with a remoteness that is difficult to describe. The difficulty of her travel to Ghor... |
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Return, Afghanistan from Aperture Price: $25.17 |
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Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan from Grove Press Price: $10.50 Customer Review: I agree with the other reviewers. More important for me was the perspective Hodson gives concering Islamic attitudes and beliefs. That those fighting the Russians often saw Russia and the US as similar is sobering and can help us to better appreciate Islam and its adherents. As a WASP, personal... |
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The Silenced Cry : One Woman's Diary of a Journey to Afghanistan from Thomas Dunne Books Price: $15.72 |
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