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An American Engineer in Afghanistan
An American Engineer in Afghanistan was first published in 1948. The legend of Afghanistan as ""The Forbidden Country"" grew chiefly from a warning of the British Indian Government which once guarded the Afghan frontier north of the Khyber Pass -- ""It is absolutely for...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1948.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Bell, Marjorie Jewett. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a An American Engineer in Afghanistan |
| 264 | 1 | |a Minneapolis : |b University of Minnesota Press, |c 1948. | |
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| 264 | 4 | |c ©1948. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a ON THE ROAD TO KABUL; KABUL; JABAL-US-SIRAJ, MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT; THE OLD MAN WITH THE WHITE BEARD; WINTER QUARTERS; A TELEPHONE MESSAGE; A GUEST IS A FRIEND FOR THREE DAYS; FROM THE TOWER ROOM OF THE OLD FORT; SPECIAL RUNNERS CARRY THE AMIR'S DAK; THE RURAL KOHISTANIS; IDLING AT BABER SARAI; ABDUR RAHMAN, THE DURANI CHIEF; IN THE SERVICE OF HIS MAJESTY; THE BETTER MOON; THE WAY OF A KING AT THE KABUL COURT; A FIRMAN FOR LEAVE; JALALABAD; THE TURKISH HAJJI; ON LEAVE IN INDIA; THE ELEPHANT CARTS ARE COMING; THE SPARROW AND THE WISDOM OF SA'DI; THIEVES AND BUDMASHES. | |
| 520 | |a An American Engineer in Afghanistan was first published in 1948. The legend of Afghanistan as ""The Forbidden Country"" grew chiefly from a warning of the British Indian Government which once guarded the Afghan frontier north of the Khyber Pass -- ""It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghanistan."" A glance at the endsheet map in this book will recall its strategic position in the Middle East. When A.C. Jewett entered in 1911 with an escort supplied for his safe transportation to Kabul, he was the first American permitted to live in the country since 1880. He was employed by | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 651 | 7 | |a Afghanistan. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01205406 | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Afghānistān |x Descriptions et voyages. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Afghanistan |x Description and travel. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Afghanistan |x Social life and customs. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Manners and customs. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive History Supplement III | ||