A Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oxus
Title | A Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oxus PDF eBook |
Author | John Wood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 454 |
Release | 1841 |
Genre | Afghanistan |
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A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus
Title | A Journey to the Source of the River Oxus PDF eBook |
Author | John Wood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | Afghanistan |
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Cabool: being a personal narrative of a journey to, and residence in that city, in the years 1836, 7, and 8. With numerous illustrations including a portrait
Title | Cabool: being a personal narrative of a journey to, and residence in that city, in the years 1836, 7, and 8. With numerous illustrations including a portrait PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Alexander BURNES |
Publisher | |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1843 |
Genre | Kabul (Afghanistan) |
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Literature of Travel and Exploration
Title | Literature of Travel and Exploration PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Speake |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 3477 |
Release | 2014-05-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1135456623 |
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
A Bibliography Of Afghanistan
Title | A Bibliography Of Afghanistan PDF eBook |
Author | K. S. McLachlan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 619 |
Release | 2019-09-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0429728670 |
This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz. the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and expertly indexed. An indispensable entry for all those taking professional or personal interest in a nation so much the focus of attention today.
The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan
Title | The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan PDF eBook |
Author | M. Nazif Shahrani |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2012-09-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0295803789 |
An extended new Preface and a new Epilogue written after the fall of the Taliban in 2001, place The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan, originally published in 1979, in the context of a vastly changed world. The original book describes the cultural and ecological adaptation of the nomadic Kirghiz and their agriculturalist neighbors, the Wakhi, to high altitudes and a frigid climate in the Wakhan Corridor, a panhandle of Afghanistan that borders Pakistan, the former Soviet Union, and the People’s Republic of China. The new Preface challenges the assumption that the root cause of terrorism is religious. Shahrani asserts that the problem of terrorism is fundamentally political and is historically linked to the inappropriate model of the centralized nation-state introduced to Afghanistan by colonial regimes. The differing responses of the Kirghiz and Wakhi to the Marxist coup are discussed in the new Epilogue. Shahrani has closely followed the flight of the Kirghiz to Pakistan in 1978 and their eventual resettlement among resentful Kurdish villagers in eastern Turkey in 1982. The ethnographic documentation and analysis of the transformation of Kirghiz society, politics, economics, and demography since their exodus from the Pamirs offers valuable lessons to our understanding of the dynamics and true resilience of small pastoral nomadic communities.
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oxus
Title | Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oxus PDF eBook |
Author | John Wood |
Publisher | Andesite Press |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2015-08-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781296727543 |
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