num_pages: 256
description: Eric Newby describes his travels in the mountains of Afghanistan. He has also written "The Last Grain Race", "Slowly Down the Ganges", "Love and War in the Apennines" and "On the Shores of the Mediterranean".
language: English
title: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
titlecomplete: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
characters: Hugh Carless, Eric Newby
genres: Biography, Adventure, Asia, Mountaineering, Memoir, Nonfiction, India, Classics, Travel, History
ratings_count: 6348
publisher: Penguin Books