Across the Hindu Kush / by Rebecca Dobbs and David Wallace

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and Violence.

Invasions.

Military marches.

Mountain travel.

Travel conditions.

War crimes.

Afghanistan.

Uzbekistan.

Alexandria Eschate, Tajikistan (Historical Place).

Local Subjects:

War and Violence.

Invasions.

Military marches.

Mountain travel.

Travel conditions.

War crimes.

Afghanistan.

Uzbekistan.

Alexandria Eschate, Tajikistan (Historical Place).

Genre:

Documentary

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 minutes)

Place of Publication:

London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation, 1997.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Michael Wood makes his way through war-torn Afghanistan on a dramatic march with pack horses over the Hindu Kush Mountains. At Kabul, Michael finds himself in the middle of a siege of the city by the fundamentalist Taliban. Hiring horses for the camera equipment and armed guards to ward off ambushes, he sets off to follow Alexander's trail, 20,000ft up in the Hindu Kush Mountains, to make it through the Khawak Pass and Central Asia. On the other side, the historical traveller stays with a local warlord before pushing on by jeep across the Oxus river into former Soviet Central Asia.The journey finally leads to the city of Khodjent. Here, Michael hears of Alexander's increasingly unstable personality. At a drunken banquet in Samarkand, the conqueror murdered one of his closest associates, fought on through the silk route, and then captured and fell in love with the beautiful teenager Roxanne.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).

OCLC:

849673919