An edition of The Afghan amulet (1994)

The Afghan amulet

travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad

1st U.S. ed.

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An edition of The Afghan amulet (1994)

The Afghan amulet

travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad

1st U.S. ed.

In 1990, armed with five kilos of luggage, a camera, and a liter of vodka, Sheila Paine set off for the high valleys of the Hindu Kush in northern Pakistan, looking for an interesting amuletic pattern relevant to her work as a textile expert. It remained elusive, always to be found "in the next valley." Undeterred, she followed traces of it on tribal costumes and in fabric amulets into increasingly dangerous and remote territories.

Over two years, her quest took her into Makran, an area split by the Pakistan/Iran border and totally closed to outsiders, then into Iran itself, once she was able to escape the watchful eye of a suspicious government official. She was smuggled into Afghanistan and continued her journey through Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan before reaching the Black Sea and the last link in the chain, the small town of Razgrad in eastern Bulgaria.

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English
Pages
278

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Cover of: The Afghan Amulet
The Afghan Amulet: Travels from the Hindu Kush (Tauris Parke Paperbacks)
December 26, 2006, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Paperback in English
Cover of: Afuhan hu shen fu
Afuhan hu shen fu: Zhong Ya gao yuan wan li xing
2001, Make Beiluo wen hua
in Chinese - Chu ban
Cover of: Afghan amulet
Afghan amulet: travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad
1995, Penguin
in English - New ed.
Cover of: The Afghan amulet
The Afghan amulet: travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad
1994, MichaelJoseph
in English
Cover of: The Afghan amulet
The Afghan amulet: travels from the Hindu Kush to Razgrad
1994, A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press
in English - 1st U.S. ed.

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-274) and index.
"First published: Great Britain : Penguin Group."
Maps on lining papers.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
915.604/53
Library of Congress
DS49.7 .P23 1994, DS49.7.P23 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 278 p. :
Number of pages
278

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1096822M
Internet Archive
afghanamulettrav0000pain
ISBN 10
031211236X
LCCN
94021437
OCLC/WorldCat
30664722
Library Thing
1202301
Goodreads
291117

First Sentence

"The Major had 'stayed on' as the Indian Army left, overseeing partition and then reverting to his old job of teaching, being offered headmastership of a school he described as the 'Winchester plus Eton' of Pakistan."

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