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Travels through Afghanistan in 1959, a time when Russian influence was becoming increasingly apparent. Armed with a miniature camera and a knowledge of the language Andrew Wilson entered Afghanistan by a back door, and stumbled across the building, by Russian technicians, of a military airfield close to the Persian/Pakistan border; from then on he travelled through Afghanistan, crossing the Hindu Kush five times, the last time in a Russian aeroplane... Wilson portrays here the Afghan landscape in all its fierce beauty and squalor.
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North from Kabul, Andrew Wilson
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- Released
- 1961
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- Title
- North from Kabul
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Andrew Wilson
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin
- Released
- 1961
- Format
- Hardcover
- Series
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- Travels through Afghanistan in 1959, a time when Russian influence was becoming increasingly apparent. Armed with a miniature camera and a knowledge of the language Andrew Wilson entered Afghanistan by a back door, and stumbled across the building, by Russian technicians, of a military airfield close to the Persian/Pakistan border; from then on he travelled through Afghanistan, crossing the Hindu Kush five times, the last time in a Russian aeroplane... Wilson portrays here the Afghan landscape in all its fierce beauty and squalor.