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Title: The Light Garden of the Angel King: Travels in Afghanistan by Peter Levi ISBN: 1-873429-35-5 Publisher: Pallas Athene Pub Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: To A Lost World-- With Chatwin, Too
Comment: Peter Levi is himself a remarkable figure: An English Jesuit who is a poet, art historian, classicist,and sometime archaeologist. "Light Garden of the Angel King" is Levi's account of his travels in Afghanistan in the late 1960s as he looked for remnants of Greek presence and examined the influences of Hellenistic art, and it's a wonderfully crafted piece. Spare, elegant, softly ironic, and informed by a sensitive intelligence and a deep knowledge of the classical world. Levi is able to evoke not only the age of Alexander's Bactrian conquests but the beauties and complexities of Islamic architecture and poetry and the travails of learning Persian. His travel companion here was the young Bruce Chatwin, and Chatwin's presence (and his fascination with nomads) gives this book a wonderful set of stories. The Afghanistan of the book is long gone, shattered by twenty years of invasion, resistance, and civil war, and for anyone who loves Central Asia, "Light Garden" is a reminder of a long-vanished world. It's very different from Newby's "Short Walk in the Hindu Kush" or Byron's classic "Road to Oxiana", but it is a brilliant travel book in its own right. Very much worth owning!
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Title: An Unexpected Light : Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot ISBN: 0312288468 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron ISBN: 0195030672 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1982 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics by Martin Ewans ISBN: 0060505079 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad: A Ten-Year Journey Along Ancient Trade Routes by Christopher Kremmer ISBN: 0060097329 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Baburnama : Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor by Jr. W.M. Thackston ISBN: 0375761373 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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