The present volume is a absorbing and informative account of Afghans and Pathans of the North-West frontier, Afghanistan and the borderlands. The book presents a fascinating panorama of landscape, environment and life-style of the turbulent occupants of the trans-Indus mountains. In his long and intimate intercourse with the tribesmen, as recounted in this book, the author throws many new and interesting sidelights on the domestic and social, as well as on the ...
