Travelogues get so boring. Balancing geographical and general information with characters involved and action is tough.
A short walk however does it admirably. The style of the author is deprecating and typically English - tongue in cheek. Reader's interest grows continuously and the end - it leaves readers wanting more.
Somehow I am always drawn to Central Asia in travel readings. Culturally it is close and also inaccessible now. Newby writes about his trip to Nuristan in 1956 with Hugh Carless of Her Majesty's Foreign Service. Hugh had gone to the region earlier but Newby was completely new and to his horror learnt that Carless also did not know anything about mountaineering. Still they persevered and climbed up to a short distance to Mir Samir - the peak they wanted to scale.
Evelyn Waugh has written a preface and Carless has added an epilogue. Fiftieth anniversary edition in 2008 is what I chanced upon in British Library and have enjoyed myself very much going through this much thumbed copy sans some photos
A short walk however does it admirably. The style of the author is deprecating and typically English - tongue in cheek. Reader's interest grows continuously and the end - it leaves readers wanting more.
Somehow I am always drawn to Central Asia in travel readings. Culturally it is close and also inaccessible now. Newby writes about his trip to Nuristan in 1956 with Hugh Carless of Her Majesty's Foreign Service. Hugh had gone to the region earlier but Newby was completely new and to his horror learnt that Carless also did not know anything about mountaineering. Still they persevered and climbed up to a short distance to Mir Samir - the peak they wanted to scale.
Evelyn Waugh has written a preface and Carless has added an epilogue. Fiftieth anniversary edition in 2008 is what I chanced upon in British Library and have enjoyed myself very much going through this much thumbed copy sans some photos
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