<P> A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is a 1958 book by the English travel writer Eric Newby . It is an autobiographical account of his adventures in the Hindu Kush , around the Nuristan mountains of Afghanistan , ostensibly to make the first mountaineering ascent of Mir Samir . Critics have found it comic , intensely English , and understated . It has sold over 500,000 copies in paperback . </P>
<P> A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is a 1958 book by the English travel writer Eric Newby . It is an autobiographical account of his adventures in the Hindu Kush , around the Nuristan mountains of Afghanistan , ostensibly to make the first mountaineering ascent of Mir Samir . Critics have found it comic , intensely English , and understated . It has sold over 500,000 copies in paperback . </P>
who wrote a short walk in the hindu kush
who wrote a short walk in the hindu kush
Eric Newby
Eric Newby