Author: BURKE, J. BERNARD
Title: On the Road to Kandahar - Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World
Description: London, Allen Lane. 2006, First Edition. (ISBN: 0713998962). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which has a minor indentation to front and is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. xvii + 297 pages. 3 maps. The Chief Reporter of the Observer, in the summer of 1991, set off to join Kurdish guerillas fighting in Iraq. It turned out to be the start of a remarkable journey that would take him from the sands of the Sahara to the highest peaks of the Himalayas, seeing at first hand life and death, war and peace, bigotry and tolerance, hate and friendship throughout the 'Islamic World'. A journey of human encounters with hundreds of people and a voyage into history and into the powerful ideas, ideologies and myths that have so often determined, for good or ill, the interaction of the West and the world of Islam. 311. Near Fine/Very Good.

Keywords: Travel, Kurdish Guerillas, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kurdistan 0713998962


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