It was 1937 and few places on earth were more remote than Afghanistan. Into this hermit kingdom went Ernest Fox, an American engineer who discovered a countryside unchanged since the days of Marco Polo.
For a year Fox rode a series of local horses through the mountains, valleys, and deserts of this forbidden realm, visiting such fables places as the mediaeval city of Herat, the towering Hindu Kush mountains, and the legendary Khyber Pass.
A lively and adventure-filled book, it provides a geographical and historical sketch of Afghan, her people and a way of life that was destroyed in the late 20th Century.
