Afghanistan Books


The Places In Between Best Price: $2.76 This is a curious book. It's a pretty good travelogue,covering the road from Herat to Kabul,...	Opium Season: A Year on the Afghan Frontier Best Price: $5.94 I just retired as a USAID Foreign Service Officer after 26 years of service. Although I didn't...	Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide Best Price: $18.69 I am currently deployed to Kabul and after reading and reviewing many guides and books this is...	Lonely Planet Afghanistan (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (Country Guide) Best Price: $16.04 This is a great first edition guide to Afghanistan. For a book without much competition, LP has...	Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan Best Price: $3.28 An amazing book. Kudo's to Ann Jones for bringing back such an amazing inside look at the...



Prisoners of Hope: The Story of Our Captivity and Freedom in Afghanistan Best Price: $2.40 I am currently reading this book, almost finished. I am thoroughly enjoying it. I understand...	Behind the Burqa: Our Life in Afghanistan and How We Escaped to Freedom Best Price: $12.00 Living in Egypt and seeing firsthand how harshly women were (and still are) treated by men...	The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan Best Price: $4.49 Each book that I have read on Afghanistan takes a slightly different tact. I read many that...	The Way of the World Best Price: $17.08 I envy him. I envy his travels and his writing. For me Bouvier writes the best travel novels. It...	An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan Best Price: $2.38 As a resident of the Middle East for almost a decade, and a professor, speaker, writer,...



A Journey through Afghanistan Best Price: $14.28 Chaffetz does an admirable job of describing northwest Afghanistan as it was circa 1975 and the...	Afghanistan Map by Nelles (Nelles Maps) Best Price: $8.13 Share reviewer above's idea that it would be good if the whole country were on one side. Would...	Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story Best Price: $6.31 Said Hyder Akbar is a surprisingly strong writer for his age. The way that he leads the reader...	The Silenced Cry: One Woman's Diary of a Journey to Afghanistan Best Price: $3.89 Inspired by a lecture in Barcelona given by a leading member of RAWA (Revolutionary Association...	Afghanistan and Surrounding Territory Map Best Price: $8.77 At a scale of 1:3,000,000 (1" to 47 miles) this map shows all of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and...

Afghanistan: A Darkness Visible Best Price: $30.88 Seamus Murphy has gone into this other world like a hidden spirit, then put his viewers right...	The Gem Hunter-True Adventures of an American in Afghanistan Best Price: $29.95 I loved Gary's book! I've been a mineral dealer for over 15 years. I've travelled to Mexico,...	The Road to Oxiana M. Byron wanted to write literature. His book therefore uses travel material with this goal. And...	A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush Best Price: $55.00 Ok, I have read the reviews about this book, most of which have "got it" and some of...	Afghanistan in a Nutshell (Nutshell Notes Series) (The World in a Nutshell) Best Price: $4.61 I found the book to be a useful overview of Afghanistan history in under 100 pages. Because any...

Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan Best Price: $4.00 If you are looking for a war story then this is not the book.	Kabul: The Bradt Miniguide Best Price: $1.26 The new Bradt Mini Guide to Kabul is a well written insider's view of Kabul. It offers the...	Return, Afghanistan Best Price: $11.59 Extraordinary vibrant photographs that capture the essence of the Afghan people: their...	Sisters on the Bridge of Fire: One Womans Journey in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan Best Price: $4.99 One of the first woman journalists to travel freely with the Afghan mujahedeen during the Soviet...	The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan Best Price: $2.53 I read this book in Husaybah, Iraq on the bloodiest of my three combat tours with Third...

The Bandit of Kabul: Episode Two of the Series "As The Prayer Wheel Turns" Best Price: $29.95 Jerry Beisler is in the midst of chronicling his eventful life, decade by decade, in a series of...	Soldiers of God: With the Mujahidin in Afghanistan Best Price: $29.99 Soldiers of God provides a good account of Afghanistan in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The...	Taliban Best Price: $24.11 Kandahar, a city of Pashtuns noted for their gaiety, so to speak, where Mullah Omar had made his...	Every Rock, Every Hill: The Plain Tale of the North-West Frontier and Afghanistan	Afghanistan Map by ITMB Best Price: $8.89 Map is inaccurate. Roads are missing from map or are incorrect. I recommend the Nelles map...

A Hedonist's Guide to Almaty and Astana (A Hedonist's Guide to...) Best Price: $10.99 Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan's current and former capitals, meld the old-world charm of Eastern...	Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers (Paladin Books) Best Price: $18.82 I first picked up this book ten years ago at a secondhand shop in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, at the...	Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan Best Price: $14.00 Pakistan is both a terrorist haven, a den of corruption, and the probable battlefront of Islamic...	Adventures in Afghanistan Best Price: $15.30 I have read this book both before and after Sept. 11... It is well written and moves along at a...	The Book of Trouble: A Romance Best Price: $0.98 WHO REALLY CARES ABOUT ANN MARLOW'S EXPLORATIONS INTO HER AFFAIR OF NINE MONTHS WITH A GUY...

To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue Best Price: $4.50 Basically a graphic novel with alternating chapters of prose. Rall's experience in Afghanistan...	The Storyteller's Daughter Best Price: $25.90	Afghanistan: The Land (Lands, Peoples, and Cultures) Best Price: $4.34	Land of the High Flags: Afghanistan When the Going Was Good Best Price: $11.91 A memoir of lost Afghanistan. When the going was good, a young American woman traveled to the...	Afghanistan Best Price: $10.00 In this exceptional volume Chris Steele-Perkins has distilled four separate travel adventures...

Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas Best Price: $1.78 I found this book to be engaging as well and for lack of a better word... fun. To me, this book...	An Afghanistan Picture Show: Or, How I Saved the World Best Price: $44.00 I don't have much to say really, just that this book is rings with bold, naked, and humiliating...	Afghanistan Country Study Guide Best Price: $84.64 Afghanistan Country Study Guide	The Light Garden of the Angel King: Travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin Best Price: $8.95 short on good anecdotes and local color. and a rather dry style to boot. I love good travel...	Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh Best Price: $27.99 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1880 edition published in Calcutta.

Storyteller's Daughter Best Price: $3.99 The Storyteller's Daughter is a tale of high adventure--a tough-minded, fearless and obviously...	From Kashmir to Kabul: The Photographs of Burke and Baker, 1860-1900 Best Price: $29.95 Very lucid, educated and well-written book. The photographs are touchstones for truly...	Baechtold's Best: Afghanistan: The Ultimate Visual Travel Guide Best Price: $1.89 I am doing research on a person from Afghanistan and I wanted to get a feeling for the country. ...	Nelles Afghanistan Travel Map (Nelles Maps) Best Price: $22.95 Up-to-date, detailed, highly readable relief map with major roads and point-to-point distances...	Night Letters: Inside Wartime Afghanistan Best Price: $2.00 I've read a dozen or more books on Afghanistan and found this one the most uninformative. It's...

The Cruel Way (Virago/Beacon Travelers) If you liked Into Thin Air or The Perfect Storm, search out all of Ella Maillart's books. She...	Afghanistan: With a map and numerous illustrations Best Price: $33.99 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1906 edition by William Heinemann, London.	The World: Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (Rand McNally) Best Price: $36.00 We have several world atlases - this is nearly always the first one we turn to when we want...	The Sewing Circles of Herat: My Afghan Years Best Price: $8.98 So the most popular elementary school primer teaches students, post-Taliban, how to count. In...	Afghanistan International Travel Map This is a good map of Afghanistan for finding cities. Really there are no other options to...

Full Tilt: From Dublin to Delhi with a Bicycle Best Price: $18.25 Shortly after her tenth birthday, Dervla Murphy decided to cycle to India. Almost 20 years...	Afghanistan Diary: 1992-2000 Best Price: $16.98 What this book does point out is the imposed limitations and oppressive treatment of women, and...	Essential Field Guides to Humanitarian and Conflict Zones: Afghanistan (Essential Field Guides to Humanitarian and Conflict Zones) The new (2005)edition of this guide brings the story up to 2004 and contains ample documentation...	Middle East (Middle East with Afghanistan & Pakistan) (Middle East with Afghanistan & Pakistan) Best Price: $2.70

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