Bannu Or Our Afghan Frontier
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780766189720
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Middle East - General; History; History - General History; History: World; Middle East
First sentence: COMPETITION is now so keen, that any ordinary Englishman who aspires to a competence by the time he is fifty has to spend the first twenty-five years of his life in preparing for and passing examinations, and the next twenty-five in one continuous grind of work, broken by the occasional brightness of a holiday-at home a trip abroad or to the sea-side; in India a month in the hills or a run to England.