A Journey through Afghanistan

A Journey through Afghanistan

David Chaffetz
$32.00
Publication Date: January 1st, 2002
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
ISBN:
9780226100647
Pages:
272
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Description

Shortly before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, David Chaffetz slipped from the protection of Western culture and immersed himself in the customs, fears, and hopes of the Afghan people, setting out by car and on horseback for a long journey through the northwestern quarter of the country. A Journey through Afghanistan is the story, told in vivid, descriptive prose, of his experience—an account that reveals more about the Afghan people themselves than most books written either before or since.

About the Author

David Chaffetz, educated at Harvard University, has written for scholarly journals and lectured extensively on the Middle East.

Willard Wood is the English translator of several French texts, including Andre Raymond’s Cairo and Jean-Christophe Ruffin’s The Abyssinian.

Praise for A Journey through Afghanistan

“The best thing I have read for giving the feel of Afghanistan and its varied people, social classes, religious sects. . . . Chaffetz wins confidence with the easy simplicity of his narrative. . . . What emerges from a charmingly simple story . . . is the warning—at least to this reviewer—that one must be cautious about using the term ‘Afghan nation’ as it is used in the west.”
— Owen Lattimore