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A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. By Eric Newby. (Seeker and Warburg, 25s.) Mr. Newby, already author of a splendid book about going to sea Under sail, walked out of a fashion house in May- fair to undertake exactly what the title says, along With a young man from the Foreign Office who, although 'his clothes had just the right mixture of the elegant and the dashing'—he was 'the epitome of a young explorer,' had never done any climbing either. Without being in the least facetious, the book is very funny; without being heroic, it is in- formed with the spirit of adventure; without being didactic, it tells much about one of the least- known parts of Asia—Nuristan, between Afghan- istan and the Tadzhik. Soviet Socialist Republic. One of the most engaging travel books since I Colonel 'Fleming was in his globe-trotting heyday.
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