Offering an intimate look at the people and places of Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan, this memoir by adventurer and historian Mathew Wilson recounts journeys into remote areas as a member of the British army and with his family in the late 1960s. Wilson relates stories of crossing the Hindu Kush with his pregnant wife and two-year-old son and running a gauntlet of armed border guards to get his injured son to a hospital. Twenty-one years later, Wilson returned to honour a promise made to a Hindu priest in Central India -- to seek, find, and follow the fleeting shadow of the Rani of Jhansi, one of the heroines of India's 1957 revolt against British rule.
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ALTAI HIMALAYA A TRAVEL DIARY
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PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Discoveries The Voyages of Captain Cook
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Dancing in Cambodia and Other Essays
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The Man Within My Head
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Traveller in China
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Empires of the Indus The Story of a River
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Among Flowers A Walk in the Himalaya
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From the Holy Mountain A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
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HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY/PAN MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LIMITED
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