Afghanistan: a companion and guide

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"Thanks to 20 years of civil war and its association with terrorism, Afghanistan is now unjustly thought of in the West as a barbarous backwater. Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide aims to dispel this image in a comprehensive introduction to 3,500 years of Afghan culture. Starting with a full history of the country from 1500BC, each chapter looks at the major cities and regions, describing their distinctive cultural and ethnic traditions, their associations with poets, artists, musicians, trave…

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Full title :Afghanistan : a companion and guide / Bijan Omrani & Matthew Leeming ; introduction by Elizabeth Chatwin.

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Publication Date:©2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Distribution in the USA by W.W. Norton, Odyssey Books & Guides
Place of Publication:Hong Kong
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (768 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color), maps)

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oclc:on1035935204
LC Classification:DS351.5
Dewey Decimal:958.1

A brief history of Afghanistan: from 1500 BC to the present day. -- Travel overview: General advice for travellers -- A Journey to the source of the Oxus; Badakhshan, the Wakhan and the great Pamir -- A short walk in the Hindu Kush : Bagram and the Panjshir Valley -- Balkh: city of the high-lifted banners -- Herat: the pearl of Khurasan -- Bamiyan and the Hazarajat -- Ghazni and Mahmud the Great -- Kandahar and the Pushtuns -- Nuristan: the country of light -- Kabul: light garden of the angel king -- Kabul and the First Afghan War -- Wildlife of Afghanistan / Anthony Fitzherbert -- NGOs in Afghanistan / Sandy Gall.