03255nam 2200553 a 450 991078240950332120230706221828.00-8166-6146-4(CKB)1000000000689734(EBL)345264(OCoLC)476161333(SSID)ssj0000102048(PQKBManifestationID)11109188(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102048(PQKBWorkID)10050584(PQKB)10440556(MiAaPQ)EBC345264(OCoLC)233584837(MdBmJHUP)muse38753(Au-PeEL)EBL345264(CaPaEBR)ebr10231233(CaONFJC)MIL525673(EXLCZ)99100000000068973420750514d1948 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAn American engineer in Afghanistan /from the letters and notes of A.C. Jewett ; ed. by Marjorie Jewett BellMinneapolis :Univ. of Minnesota Press,[1948]1 online resource (354 pages)0-8166-6834-5 0-8166-0046-5 CONTENTS; ON THE ROAD TO KABUL; KABUL; JABAL-US-SIRAJ, MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT; THE OLD MAN WITH THE WHITE BEARD; WINTER QUARTERS; A TELEPHONE MESSAGE; A GUEST IS A FRIEND FOR THREE DAYS; FROM THE TOWER ROOM OF THE OLD FORT; SPECIAL RUNNERS CARRY THE AMIR'S DAK; THE RURAL KOHISTANIS; IDLING AT BABER SARAI; ABDUR RAHMAN, THE DURANI CHIEF; IN THE SERVICE OF HIS MAJESTY; THE BETTER MOON; THE WAY OF A KING AT THE KABUL COURT; A FIRMAN FOR LEAVE; JALALABAD; THE TURKISH HAJJI; ON LEAVE IN INDIA; THE ELEPHANT CARTS ARE COMING; THE SPARROW AND THE WISDOM OF SA'DI; THIEVES AND BUDMASHESTHE LIGHT OF THE NATION AND THE FAITH; WAITING FOR LEAVE; THE PUNJAB BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED; KOHISTAN BOUND; THE PAST IS PAST; THE BROWN MAN'S BURDEN; FROM THE KOTI SETAREH ENCLOSURE; LETTERS TO DAVID FAIRCHILD; FED BY THE SNOWS OF THE HINDU KUSH; THIS YEAR WAS AS MUCH AS FIFTY; FOOL MOHAMMAD BLOWS THE BELLOWS; KAFIR IDOLS; UNCAUGHT SPARROWS ARE CHEAP; WE GET UP WITH THE LARK; KABUL OF RECENT TIMES; A LAMP IS LIT; THE CODE OF THE KINGDOM; KISMET; TAMAM SHUD; GLOSSARYAn American Engineer in Afghanistan was first published in 1948. The legend of Afghanistan as ""The Forbidden Country"" grew chiefly from a warning of the British Indian Government which once guarded the Afghan frontier north of the Khyber Pass -- ""It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghanistan."" A glance at the endsheet map in this book will recall its strategic position in the Middle East. When A. C. Jewett entered in 1911 with an escort supplied for his safe transportation to Kabul, he was the first American permitted to live in the country since 1880.AfghanistanSocial life and customsAfghanistanDescription and travel915.8Jewett A. C1542908Bell Marjorie Jewett1542909MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782409503321An American engineer in Afghanistan3796059UNINA