Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide (Second Edition) (Odyssey Illustrated Guides). Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide (Second Edition) (Odyssey Illustrated Guides)

Thanks to 20 years of civil war and its association with terrorism, Afghanistan is often unjustly thought of in the West as a barbarous backwater. This guide dispels that image in a comprehensive introduction to 3,500 years of Afghan culture. Each chapter

Binjan Omrani attended Lincoln College, Oxford. His research interests include Euripides, mysticism, Henry Purcell and the history of the Afghan-Pakistan frontier. He is the author and editor of various works on Central Asia, and also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Geographical Society. He teaches Classics at Westminster School
Matthew Leeming read first Theology and then Management at Oxford. In between he ran a tile manufacturing business with factories in England and India. He first visited Afghanistan in 1993 to help re-start the world's oldest tile factory in the Friday Mosque in Herat. His articles in The Spectator have been syndicated internationally and he has also written on Afghanistan for the Times, Sunday Telegraph and the literary journal AretT. He has lectured and broadcast on Afghanistan all over the world and has written a travel book on the country for Pan Macmillan.
Elizabeth Chatwin attended Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, upon graduating, came to London to work at Sotheby's auction house.