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Afghanistan
The Land That Was
Michaud Roland, Michaud Sabrina, Velter André

Editeur - Casa editrice

Harry N. Abrams

Asia
Asia Centrale
Afghanistan

Anno - Date de Parution

2002

Pagine - Pages

256

Titolo originale

Afghanistan: The Land That Was

Lingua - language - langue

eng

Contributo di

Andre Velter

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Afghanistan: The Land That Was

Afghanistan  

Once upon a time, before the Soviet invasion and two decades of civil war, Afghanistan stood as a beautiful, if austere, country. Enchanted by the dramatic landscape, two photographers from the West devoted 14 years, from 1964 to 1978, to documenting its rugged charms. From ruined cities covered with desert sands to the Pamir mountains, where caravans of camels walk across frozen rivers in winter, to the Turkestan bazaars along the old Silk Road, Roland and Sabrina Michaud traveled and came to love this ravaged paradise and its proud peoples: Pashtuns, Tadjiks, Hazara farmers, Uzbek horsemen, Kirgiz shepherds, Nuristani mountain dwellers, and Derbiche vagrants.

With the Michauds' evocative photography and text by prizewinning poet and essayist Andre Velter, this striking testimony to the Afghanistan that once was will help readers understand and respect a country now so central to current events.