DOCHERTY, PADDY.

The Khyber Pass. A History of Empire and Invasion.

London. Faber and Faber. 2007. Stock ID #216632

Map, black and white illustrations, colour photographic plates, xii + 261pp, index. Name of a prior owner front free endpaper, very good hardback copy in dustjacket.

"Thirty miles long, and in places no more than sixteen metres wide, the Pass is the principal route through the great mountain borderlands between India and Central Asia - and the path of invasion for generations of conquerors. This book charts its remarkable story. It also describes how around the Pass emerged three of the great world religions." (Publisher's description).

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