The Narrow Smile: A Journey Back to the Northwest Frontier - Brossura

Mayne, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 178060209X ISBN 13: 9781780602097

Casa editrice: Eland Pub Ltd, 2023

Riassunto

The Narrow Smile is a portrait of the Pathan and their highland home on either side of the Pakistan-Afghan frontier. Peter Mayne grew up in India, and later spent four years on the Northwest Frontier during the Second World War. Mayne delighted in the company of these fierce but hospitable highlanders, who were as hard as the mountains that assured their independence but democratic to the point that no man admitted the right of another to lead him. In 1953, Mayne took a long journey to see what had become of his old friends in the high, flower-filled valleys on the roof of the world. But peace had always been a relative concept on this frontier, where Afghanistan was now eyeing Pashtun lands in a new iteration of the Great Game. Mayne’s misadventures are sometimes serious, often very funny, and at all times compassionate.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Eland Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 178060209X
• ISBN 13: 9781780602097
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile