This is an auction for A SHORT WALK IN THE HINDU KUSH by Eric Newby.

Preface by Evelyn Waugh.

Amazon.com review:

"'The view was colossal. Below us on every side mountains surged away it seemed forever; we looked down on glaciers and snow-covered peaks that perhaps no one has ever seen before, except from the air.' Feeling restless in the world of London's high-fashion industry, Eric Newby asked a friend to accompany him on a mountain-climbing expedition in the wild and remote Hindu Kush, in north-eastern Afghanistan. And so they went - although they did stop first for four days of climbing lessons in Wales - becoming the first Englishmen to visit this spectacular region for more than half a century. Newby's frank and funny account of their expedition to what is still amongst the world's most isolated areas is one of the classics of travel writing."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Penguin paperback 1968.

253 pages + 15 photographs.

Good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.60.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

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