A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

AuthorEric Newby
GenreNon-fiction, Travel, Adventure, Humor
Original LanguageEnglish
First published1958
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NotesA Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is a 1958 book by the English travel writer Eric Newby. It is an autobiographical account of his adventures in the Hindu Kush, around the Nuristan mountains of Afghanistan, ostensibly to make the first mountaineering ascent of Mir Samir. Critics have found it comic, intensely English, and understated.
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