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Recommended
Reading
- Brief
but descriptive odysseys through Pakistan
can be found in The Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux and Danziger's Travels
by Nick Danziger. Other good travel narratives
include The Golden Peak: Travels in Northern
Pakistan by Kathleen Jamie, To the
Frontier by Geoffrey Moorhouse and Full
Tilt by Dervla Murphy.
- Pakistan's
historical and cultural traditions get a
good going over in the excellent Every
Rock, Every Hill: A Plain Tale of the North-West
Frontier & Afghanistan by Victoria
Schofield and Words For My Brother
by John Staley. Pakistan: A Modern History
by Ian Talbot explores the country's lack
of democratic success.
- Less
recent histories and more in the 'Gripping
Yarns' vein are John Keay's When Men
& Mountains Meet, Sir George Robertson's
Chitral, The Story of a Minor Siege
and Derek Waller's The Pundits.
- For
fiction, don't ignore Shame, Salman
Rushdie's engrossing tragi-comic fantasy
about Z A Bhutto and General Ziaul-Haq.
Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King
and Kim provide a British colonial
perspective and a romping good read. Similarly,
there's George MacDonald Fraser's swaggering
Flashman in the Great Game.
- If
you're looking for a light-headed buzz,
read Greg Child's Thin Air about
mountain climbing the Karakoram.
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