My Afghanistan : the life of a young American woman as a teacher in Afghanistan in the days before the Taliban / by Jean Boyce-Smith.

By:

Boyce-Smith, Jean

Contributor(s):

edited by Ann Harris Boyce

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Napa, CA : Aeronaut Press, c2011.Description: [5], 276 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

9780964282889

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

DS354 .B69 2011

Summary: Abstract: Twenty-two-years-old and newly graduated from college, the author and her husband set out on an adventure to Afghanistan. It is 1948, just three years after World War II and a year after the bloody Partition of India and Pakistan, and Ghandhi's assassination. It a time of distrust. Many Afghans want to modernize and see education in English as the key. The author and her husband are hired by The Royal Afghan Government to teach. This is their story.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Monograph	Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University	DS354.B69 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3ACKU000350024

Total holds: 0

Abstract: Twenty-two-years-old and newly graduated from college, the author and her husband set out on an adventure to Afghanistan. It is 1948, just three years after World War II and a year after the bloody Partition of India and Pakistan, and Ghandhi's assassination. It a time of distrust. Many Afghans want to modernize and see education in English as the key. The author and her husband are hired by The Royal Afghan Government to teach. This is their story.

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