An American engineer in Afghanistan / from the letters and notes of A.C. Jewett ; ed. by Marjorie Jewett Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jewett, A. C., 1868-1926.

Contributor:

Bell, Marjorie Jewett.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Afghanistan--Social life and customs.

Afghanistan.

Afghanistan--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press, [1948]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An American Engineer in Afghanistan was first published in 1948. The legend of Afghanistan as ""The Forbidden Country"" grew chiefly from a warning of the British Indian Government which once guarded the Afghan frontier north of the Khyber Pass -- ""It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghanistan."" A glance at the endsheet map in this book will recall its strategic position in the Middle East. When A. C. Jewett entered in 1911 with an escort supplied for his safe transportation to Kabul, he was the first American permitted to live in the country since 1880.

Contents:

CONTENTS; ON THE ROAD TO KABUL; KABUL; JABAL-US-SIRAJ, MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT; THE OLD MAN WITH THE WHITE BEARD; WINTER QUARTERS; A TELEPHONE MESSAGE; A GUEST IS A FRIEND FOR THREE DAYS; FROM THE TOWER ROOM OF THE OLD FORT; SPECIAL RUNNERS CARRY THE AMIR'S DAK; THE RURAL KOHISTANIS; IDLING AT BABER SARAI; ABDUR RAHMAN, THE DURANI CHIEF; IN THE SERVICE OF HIS MAJESTY; THE BETTER MOON; THE WAY OF A KING AT THE KABUL COURT; A FIRMAN FOR LEAVE; JALALABAD; THE TURKISH HAJJI; ON LEAVE IN INDIA; THE ELEPHANT CARTS ARE COMING; THE SPARROW AND THE WISDOM OF SA'DI; THIEVES AND BUDMASHES

THE LIGHT OF THE NATION AND THE FAITH; WAITING FOR LEAVE; THE PUNJAB BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED; KOHISTAN BOUND; THE PAST IS PAST; THE BROWN MAN'S BURDEN; FROM THE KOTI SETAREH ENCLOSURE; LETTERS TO DAVID FAIRCHILD; FED BY THE SNOWS OF THE HINDU KUSH; THIS YEAR WAS AS MUCH AS FIFTY; FOOL MOHAMMAD BLOWS THE BELLOWS; KAFIR IDOLS; UNCAUGHT SPARROWS ARE CHEAP; WE GET UP WITH THE LARK; KABUL OF RECENT TIMES; A LAMP IS LIT; THE CODE OF THE KINGDOM; KISMET; TAMAM SHUD; GLOSSARY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8166-6146-4

OCLC:

476161333