Hardback. Good. ISBN 0354041673 9780354041676 [GB]

Macdonald & Jane's, 1977. 0354041673. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered cloth-backed paper-laid boards (top edge lightly dust stained, fore edge very lightly spotted - otherwise bright VG), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. xix + 393, illus with b&w plates and maps (previous owner's armorial book-plate on half title). Macdonald & Jane's, 1977. 0354041673 ISBN 0354041673 9780354041676 [GB]

London: MacDonald and Jane's, Date: 1977. If a single traveller, endeavours to make his way through (the Khyber Pass) the noise of his horses feet sounds up the long narrow valleys, and soon brings the Khyberees in troops from the hills and ravines.... If they expect a caravan, they assemble in hundreds and sit patiently, with their matchlocks in their hands, watching its approach. Such are their habits of rapine that they can never be entirely restrained from plundering passengers..... On the whole, they are the greatest robbers amongst the Afghauns. So wrote the honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone who in February 1809, was the first Englishman to visit Peshawar - the ancient, bustling winter capital of Afghanistan, displaying its exotic wealth in the midst of barren poverty, maintaining a luxurious court despite the constant bloody feuds that raged among the tribes surrounding it. Elpinstone and his red coated soldiers had arrived, with their magnificent caravan of 600 camels, from the east - from India. This was the first step in a sequence of events that would lead to British rule of Peshawar, the Khyber Pass, and all eastern Afghanistan. The country, that was to become known as the North West Frontier. It would prove the only part of the Empire that the British were never able to conquer. Canning, Curzon, Roberts, Churchill, Kitchener: the problems of the North West Frontier affected the careers of each of them, and of many less famous men. Charles Miller ...

London .UK: MacDonald and Jane, Date: 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Charles Miller tells the history of this troubled area's labyrinthine politics and uncertain fortunes. The author takes the reader from the first tentative approach by the British through their embroilment with savage Parthans and fierce Afridis to the present day.The dust jacket has minor shelf-rubbing to the panels, the text block and boards are tight and clean. Book price includes 2nd class post in UK only. This book is photographed as proof against in-transit damage.. 1977. MacDonald and Jane ISBN 0354041673 9780354041676 [GB]

Macdonald & Jane's, Date: 1977., 1977. 1st ed. 393p. Photos. Maps. Heavy. Price clipped. In mylar. Fine/Fine Copy. First Edition. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Book. 1977. Macdonald & Jane's, 1977. ISBN 0354041673 9780354041676 [US]

London MacDonald and Jane's 1977 Hardcover 393p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Corners lightly bumped and bookplate on back of half-title page. Text clean and binding tight. The jacket is price-clipped and mildly crinkled along the edges. Contains two sections of black and white plates.

ISBN10: 0354041673, ISBN13: 9780354041676, [publisher: MacDonald and Jane's, London] Hardcover 393p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Corners lightly bumped and bookplate on back of half-title page. Text clean and binding tight. The jacket is price-clipped and mildly crinkled along the edges. Contains two sections of black and white plates.
[Dayton, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1977]
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