There is a strange magic about the lands of the North-West Frontier and Afghanistan, a magic which over many centuries has captured the hearts and minds of all who have been there, and the imaginations of many who have not. Visions are conjured up of lean hawk-nosed tribesmen, craggy defiles, struggling British soldiers, near cantonments, bitter battles, memsahibs at tea—and of the most famous mountain gateway in the world, the Khyber pass. It is a region of ...
