Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
by Nick Danziger
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This account describes the author's adventures during an 18-month journey beyond forbidden frontiers in Asia. With minimal equipment and disguised as an itinerant Muslim, he hitch-hiked and walked through southern Turkey, and the Iran of the Ayatollahs, entering Afghanistan illegally in the wake of a convoy of Chinese weapons and then spent months dodging Russian helicopter gunships with the rebel guerillas. He was the first foreigner to cross from Pakistan into the closed western province show more of China since the revolution on 1949. show lessTags
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His story of going through Afghanistan is really amazing. However, he seems to tire later on (as he admits himself), and spends the pages describing expatriate social life and his attempts to get his visa renewed.
Interseting travelogue of a man who lived and came to admire the mujahadin of Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. Provides some useful insights into todays (2005 / 06) troubles. Good discriptions of Tibet and interior China
So-so; neither overly insightful or very interesting. Read this while on an airplane which was more interesting than sleeping....
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
- Original publication date
- 1987
- Important places
- Bhutan; Tibet; Afghanistan; Iran; Pakistan; China
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to the many people along the way who showed me such overwhelming kindness, generosity and hospitality and without whom the journey would not have been possible.
- Blurbers
- Ure, John
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.80)
- Languages
- Chinese, English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 4
