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The Light Garden of the Angel King

From time immemorial Afghanistan has both been a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads. Through its high valleys merchants traded Chinese porcelains, bundles of indigo cloth, sacks of lapis lazuli, golden jewellery, emeralds and fine carvings from both east and west. Ancient scrolls and beliefs entered the land in satchels of Buddhist pilgrims and in the baggage of military invaders- from Alexander the Great to Mughal, Persian and Arab conquerors and even the ill-fated armies of the British Raj. In this resonant account, Peter Levi seeks the clues which each migration left, in th.

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  • "From time immemorial Afghanistan has both been a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads. Through its high valleys merchants traded Chinese porcelains, bundles of indigo cloth, sacks of lapis lazuli, golden jewellery, emeralds and fine carvings from both east and west. Ancient scrolls and beliefs entered the land in satchels of Buddhist pilgrims and in the baggage of military invaders- from Alexander the Great to Mughal, Persian and Arab conquerors and even the ill-fated armies of the British Raj. In this resonant account, Peter Levi seeks the clues which each migration left, in th."@en
  • "Ein Reisebericht aus Afghanistan, aufgeschrieben 1970, als Krieg und Zerstörung noch in weiter Ferne lagen. Dreissig Jahre später gelesen, klagt dieses Buch die Trägödie der letzten Jahrzehnte an - und erinnert an eine Vergangenheit, die dem neuen Afghanistan helfen kann, eine Vorstellung von seiner Zukunft zu gewinnen."

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  • "The Light Garden of the Angel King"@en
  • "Il giardino luminoso del re angelo : un viaggio in Afghanistan con Bruce Chatwin"@it
  • "Il giardino luminoso del re angelo : un viaggio in Afghanistan con Bruce Chatwin"
  • "The light garden of the angel king : [travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin]"
  • "The Light garden of the angel king"
  • "The light garden of the angel king : travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin"
  • "Im Garten des Lichts mit Bruce Chatwin durch Afghanistan"
  • "Im Garten des Lichts : mit Bruce Chatwin durch Afghanistan"
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  • "The light garden of the angel king"

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