Forbidden Road: Kabul to Samarkand

Cassell and Company, London, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 1st UK Edition: 289 pages, illustrated 76 half-tone illustrations. Ex Mudies library, remnants of library bookplates etc., spotting to page edges, contents clean. A good read. Forbes was justly famous for her travels in perilous portions of the world, visiting remote places for years. During the 1920s she rode a camel across the Libyan deserts in search of a lost city, ventured to dozens of other forbidden places and written a long list of bestsellers. She started in Peshawar, that charming, mostly lawless city that sits like a pigeon egg at the base of the nearby Khyber Pass. Forbes of course had to venture into the city's old bazaars, investigating rumours of "the secrets of Peshawar that all men know." Yet her desire lay beyond the cultured sin of this infamous border town. So it was that in 1935 she hired a driver and car, threw her bags in the back, pulled on her gloves, set her stylish hat firmly in place, and climbed aboard, bound for Kabul, Mazar-I-Sharif, and ultimately faraway Samarkand. What followed was one of the most delightful journeys of the adventure-filled 1930s, for nothing escaped Forbes' observant eye. She spoke to nomads, dined with royalty, and uncovered enough stories to fill two books. Luckily her photographs and the best stories are still gathered here, in "Forbidden Road" This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3507. .