To the Frontier
by Geoffrey Moorhouse
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Geoffrey Moorhouse's fascination with India, which began with his classic Calcutta in 1971, took him back in 1983 to the North West Frontier, still 1 of the most turbulent regions in the sub-continent of South Asia. For 3 months he travelled through sind and the Punjab, finally reaching the high Hindu Kush mountains in the North. He traversed the Baluchistan desert, lingered in Kipling's favourite city of Lahore, and was one of the few foreigners able to penetrate the Khyber pass as far as show more the border of Afghanistan. He met Afghan Mujahideen, investigated drug smuggling and 1 day found himself in a room with 2 tons of heroin. In theNorth, he spent time with the celebrated soldiers of the Chitral Scouts. He reports on polo and cricket at altitudes unthinkable at Lords. His account of a terrifying journey along a narrow, precipitous track, complete with thawing but treacherous ice, is a seat-edge experience. show lessTags
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Geoffrey Moorhouse was never anything less than readable; at times, his writing is sublime. In this volume he travels to Pakistan, hoping to reach as close to the border with Afghanistan as possible. Given that these were the years of the mujahideen, that would prove no easy task. His survey of Pakistan in the 1980s is an illuminating read; there are places where Moorhouse, worried by the zealous excesses of the Islamic government, makes dire predictions for the future of the country, and for the most part these have come true. Where they have not, it is simply because Moorhouse was too optimistic.
From one of the book boxes that Moem sent to me. This book is now looking for a new home.
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