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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Lonely Planet Journeys (Travel Literature)) (Paperback)
$12.85 - Save $2.14 (14%) - RRP $14.99 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Short Walk in the Hindu KushA frank and funny account of an ill-prepared Himalayan expedition from one of the world's best-loved travel writers. Ranked 16th in the National Geographic Adventure magazine ranking for the Top 100 advendure books of all time.
Full description- Publisher: Lonely Planet
- Published: 01 July 2008
- Format: Paperback 255 pages
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- Categories: Guidebooks | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9781741795288 ISBN 10: 1741795281
- Sales rank: 91,615
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Full description for A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
The view was colossal. Below us on every side mountain surged away it seemed forever; we looked down on glaciers and snow-covered peaks that perhaps no one has ever seen before, except from the air.' Feeling restless in the world of London's high-fashion industry, Eric Newby asked a friend to accompany him on a mountain-climbing expedition in the wild and remote Hindu Kush, in north-eastern Afghanistan. And so they went - although they did stop first for four days of climbing lessons in Wales - becoming the first Englishmen to visit this spectacular region for more than half a century. Newby's frank and funny account of their expedition to what is still amongst the world's most isolated areas is one of the classics of travel writing.
