The Land of War Elephants: Travels Beyond the Pale in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India
The Land of War Elephants: Travels Beyond the Pale in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India
Nomad Press | 2003-10-01 | ISBN: 0965925897 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Offering an intimate look at the people and places of Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan, this memoir by adventurer and historian Mathew Wilson recounts journeys into remote areas as a member of the British army and with his family in the late 1960s. Wilson relates stories of crossing the Hindu Kush with his pregnant wife and two-year-old son and running a gauntlet of armed border guards to get his injured son to a hospital. Twenty-one years later, Wilson returned to honor a promise made to a Hindu priest in Central India-to seek, find, and follow the fleeting shadow of the Rani of Jhansi, one of the heroines of India's 1957 revolt against British rule.