8 reisgidsen en landkaarten Afghanistan

Een degelijke kaart met aanduidingen van o.a. nationale parken, vliegveld, benzinepomp, dirt-roads en kleine plattegrond van hoofdstad. Als overzichtskaart goed te gebruiken.

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Roads by classification, silk road, airports, towns, villages, ruins, national parks, lakes, swamps, points of interest and other information

It is a bit difficult to credit Afghanistan having touristic potential at the moment, but it is an extremely important country right now, and that justifies a very good map of the country. This is our third edition of this country and each one keeps getting better. We can’t justify sending a researcher into a combat zone to gather data, but we are thankful to those aid workers and soldiers who have added to our information base and helped make this map more useful. In this edition, we are showing some new roads, reflecting the reality that the country is succeeding in improving its infrastructure in spite of a very tense political situation. We have also placed more focus on the borderlands with Pakistan as that country has been immersed in the Afghan conflict. This edition is dedicated to the Canadian forces, both military, police, and civilian, who are trying so hard to bring peace and stability to southern Afghanistan and who have suffered more than 100 casualties to date. This is not to minimize the enormous contributions being made by many tens of thousands of men and women of other nations, or their equally heavy losses, but as a Canadian, I feel closer to our own. The map also shows a good inset map of Kabul and a recent cover picture taken by one of our helpers ... [meer info]

Reisgidsen Afghanistan

Dit geweldige boek beschrijft de immense schat aan cultureel erfgoed, geschiedenis en natuur in Afghanistan. Een boek voor zowel de thuisblijver als de reiziger! Engelstalig.

Thanks to 20 years of civil war and its association with terrorism, Afghanistan is now unjustly thought of in the West as a barbarous backwater. Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide aims to dispel this image in a comprehensive introduction to 3,500 years of Afghan culture. Starting with a full history of the country from 1500BC, each chapter looks at the major cities and regions, describing their distinctive cultural and ethnic traditions, their associations with poets, artists, musicians, travelers and holy men, as well as warriors and conquerors. Ancient and modern sources from Afghanistan are extensively quoted, as well as the thoughts, musings and experiences of writers from America, Europe, Russia, China, India and the Middle East, including such luminaries as Robert Byron and Bruce Chatwin.

Experienced Afghan traveller Matthew Leeming contributes detailed information for those who intend to visit the country as tourists, with guides to specific cities and areas, as well as more general advice. Elizabeth Chatwin, whose famous 1970s journey to Afghanistan with her husband Bruce Chatwin and poet Peter Levi was immortalised in The Light Garden of the Angel King, contributes an introduction. A number of specialist essays by leading experts further present topics such as archeology, architecture, carpets, miniature painting, music, flora and fauna. Wonderfully illustrated with superb images from world-renowned photographers, this book also features engravings, paintings and images of priceless museum artifacts. This lavish publication reveals the immense treasury of cultural, historical and natural wealth too frequently forgotten that is Afghanistan.
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Lonely Planet (Engels) € 21.75

De perfecte reisgids voor zowel de georganiseerde als de zelfstandige reiziger. Naast een algemene inleiding van het land / streek vol met praktische informatie over hoe je er het beste kunt reizen: slapen, eten, vervoer, excursies ... alles kun je er in vinden.

Discover Afghanistan Blink as you emerge from the cliffs at the top of one of Bamiyan's enormous Buddha niches. Stop pedalling for a moment and drift in your swan-shaped pedalo on the waters of Band-e Amir. Utter a great smoking sigh of contentment as you puff on a sheesha at Mirwais Shandaiz. In This Guide: Chapters on working and safety in Afghanistan, with advice from resident expats. Specialist contributors write on journalism, women, and trekking in the Wakhan and the Afghan Pamir. Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler reflects on travel to Afghanistan over the decades. ... [meer info]

Reisverhalen en reisromans Afghanistan

Ik zal zijn als as - Saskia Kunst : € 13.50

Saskia Kunst schreef een aangrijpend reisverhaal over Afghanistan, waar de Taliban alle vrouwen uit het openbare leven heeft verbannen. Haar boek geeft een scherp beeld van hun gesluierd verzet. ... [meer info]

Tussenstations, te voet van Herat naar Kabul - Afghanistan : € 25.00

Afghanistan: een land dat in 2001 bekend werd, toen in de vergetelheid raakte, en sinds kort weer in het brandpunt van de internationale belangstelling staat.
In januari 2002 wandelde de Schot Rory Stewart als eerste toerist in een net bevrijd Afghanistan, een land gevangen tussen vijandige staten, strijdende facties en botsende ideologieën.
Stewart volgde de vrijwel ontoegankelijke bergroute die de Mogolkeizer Babur eeuwen eerder had afgelegd. De extreme, gevaarlijke omstandigheden werden hem bijna te veel. Slechts met de hulp van een onverwachte metgezel en de edelmoedigheid van de mensen die hij onderweg ontmoette, wist hij zijn tocht te voltooien.
Tussenstations werd na publicatie erkend als een meesterwerk, een absoluut hoogtepunt in de reisliteratuur. Het boek is juist nu, met de herontdekking van Afghanistan, internationaal doorgebroken.
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