THROUGH THE HEART OF AFGHANISTAN

TRINKLER, Emil

ISBN 10: 1590480880 / ISBN 13: 9781590480885

Published by The Long Riders' Guild Press, 2001

Scarce. "The Classic 1920s Account of Life in the Forbidden Kingdom." Translated in 1928 from German to English by B K Featherstone. Illustrated b/w photographs. No date given for this modern publication but PO inscription dated 2002. O/w in perfectly clean condition. All profits to Amnesty International. Seller Inventory # 012431

Synopsis:

Few people recall today that Germany and Afghanistan were once close friends, allied in their mutual distrust of the then still-powerful British Empire. Within the space of a few years the British had beaten the Germans on the battlefields of the First World War. A few years later these same English victors used their military machine, complete with state-of-the-art airplanes based in India, to bomb their Afghan neighbors into political submission. It was during the early 1920s, while both Germany and Afghanistan were thus licking their wounds and regaining their political power, that the German geologist Emile Trinkler made his legendary trip across the forbidden kingdom of Afghanistan. The Afghan king had shut his borders to the majority of outsiders, which further heightened the kingdom's already famous isolation. Yet having arrived at the Afghan border via Russian Turkestan, Trinkler wasn't about to go back. He mounted a local horse and rode off across the vast interior of that still-beautiful country. "Through the Heart of Afghanistan" describes his journey. Its pages are sprinkled with the author's reminiscences of a Central Asian world now passed into memory. Solitary peaks. Peaceful valleys. Sunny plains and blazing deserts are all to be found on these loving pages. Trinkler saw Afghanistan as she still was, asleep and dreaming in the last stages of her long medieval slumber. Amply illustrated with a series of period photographs, "Through the Heart of Afghanistan" takes the reader back in time, on the back of a horse, and in the company of a gentle man, to a country now recalled only in legends.

Bibliographic Details

Title: THROUGH THE HEART OF AFGHANISTAN
Publisher: The Long Riders' Guild Press
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Thus.