Afghanistan has always been a mountainous crossroads. Through it have come merchants with indigo and Chinese silk, Alexander the Great, nomads from the Steppes, colonies of Buddhist monks, great Moghul conquerors and the ill-fated armies of the British Raj. In this book, Peter Levi, a classical scholar and a poet, seeks the clues which each migration left, and it is this quest that gives the book its theme. How far East did Alexander really establish himself? Who built the great Upland castle that exists on no map? Could the sculptors of Athens really have influenced the early Buddhist artists?
- ISBN10 014009525X
- ISBN13 9780140095258
- Publish Date 5 January 1984 (first published 25 September 1972)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 12 May 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition Revised edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English