A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
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Eric Newby. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
A Short Walkin the Hindu Kush. ERIC NEWBY
Table of Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
MAPS
Preface
CHAPTER ONE Life of a Salesman
CHAPTER TWO Death of a Salesman
CHAPTER THREE Birth of a Mountain Climber
CHAPTER FOUR Pera Palace
CHAPTER FIVE The Dying Nomad
CHAPTER SIX Airing in a Closed Carriage
CHAPTER SEVEN A Little Bit of Protocol
CHAPTER EIGHT Panjshir Valley
CHAPTER NINE A Walk in the Sun
CHAPTER TEN Finding our Feet
CHAPTER ELEVEN Western Approaches
CHAPTER TWELVE Round 1
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Coming Round the Mountain
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Round 2
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Knock-out
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Over the Top
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Going Down!
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN A Room with a View
CHAPTER NINETEEN Disaster at Lake Mundul
CHAPTER TWENTY Beyond the Arayu
Epilogue to the 50th Anniversary Edition. BY HUGH CARLESS
Plates
Notes
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Praise
Also by the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Preface by Evelyn Waugh
Epilogue by Hugh Carless
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More soberly with the Foreign Office, who had to obtain permission from the Ambassador at Kabul for Hugh to visit Afghanistan. I was interviewed by a representative of the Asian Desk in the sombre room full of hair sofas and broken umbrellas reserved for persons like myself, intruders from the outside world without credentials. We faced each other across a large mahogany table. Like all such encounters it was not a success.
‘We have sent the Ambassador a long cable.’
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