TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stark,Freya
TI  - The minaret of Djam : : an excursion in Afghanistan / 
T2  - (Freya Stark collection)
SN  - 9781848853133
AV  - DS352. S73 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  -  Description and travel
KW  - Stark, Freya
KW  -  Travel
KW  -  Afghanistan.
N1  - Contents: List of illustrations—Author’s note—1. Four roads—2. Enhancements of life—3. Sheep—4. Heroism and tradition—5. Landscape in Asia—6. The Herat wind—7. The minaret—8. The second threshold—9. Nomads—10. The western roads to Kabul—Index
N2  - Abstract: The twelfth-century minaret of Djam is one of Afghanistan's most celebrated treasures, a magnificent symbol of the powerful Ghorid Empire that once stretched from Iran to India. The second talles brick minaret in the world, Djam lies in the heart of central Afghanistan's wild Ghor Province
ER  -