Land of the high flags : Afghanistan when the going was good / Rosanne Klass.
Material type: TextLanguage: Publication details: Hong Kong : Odyssey ; New York : distributed by W.W. Norton, c2007.Description: 344 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cmISBN:- 9622177867
- 9789622177864
- DS 354 .K55 1966 2007
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Summary: An insightful account of the land and its proud people. Klass was the first woman to teach boys from the country's villages. She writes of Afghan traditions, of stark, splendid landscapes and of enduring friendships. A vivid protrait of Afghanistan as it was before Afghan life was blasted into ruins.
Notes: Originally published by Random House as: Land of the high flags : a travel-memoir of Afghanistan, 1964.