The Light Garden of the Angel King: Journeys in Afghanistan

by Peter Levi

Overview

From time immemorial, merchants, pilgrims, and invaders from East and West have penetrated the high valleys of Afghanistan. In this resonant account, Peter Levi seeks the clues which each migration left, in the company of the young Bruce Chatwin. Since his journey, Afghanistan has suffered forty years of invasion and civil war, making it all the more poignant to rediscover ‘this highway of archangels/this theatre of heaven/the light garden of the God—forgiven angel King.'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781906011550
Publisher:	Eland Publishing
Publication date:	03/05/2014
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Map 8-9

Introduction 11

Preface 17

Part I My Origins and Our Beginnings 23

Part II Bamiyan 55

Part III The West and the South 81

Part IV The North and the North-East 117

Part V Nuristan 167

Part VI Ay Khanoum 207

Notes 219

Poems written in Afghanistan 249

Index 256