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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Book in excellent unrean/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> HISTORY IS OFTEN UNJUST. IT RECORDS ONLY THE TRAGEDIES AND THE MASSACRES ALONG WITH THE CLAMOUR of invading horsemen or the dust trails of despair left in their wake. And it relegates to the margins of its bloodstained paths the wisdom of all eternity. This is what strikes the traveller as he roams over the by-ways of Afghanistan so long at war and suddenly immersed in the heady atmosphere of peace. Despite the wounds and the scars wisdom remains: a time-burnished wisdom of the East a tradition of hospitality borne along by the sediment of all those who came before whether conquerors or mere beggars. As for the traveller he does not forget never forgets his Afghan journey his voyage to the land of insubordination Yaghestan resistant to everything and most of all to amnesia. To travel is to break free and fall captive’ to paraphrase Nicolas Bouvier en route for Afghanistan. Everything here is captivating: the history of passions the dramas crystallized in the fatalism of gestures and the slowness of time designed to mock time and distil moments of happiness. Who can remain indifferent to the colour of the world as mirrored in these mountains and valleys in the endless discussions and evening gatherings? (SP)