eric newby wrote a short walk in the hindu kush.
eric newby wrote a short walk in the hindu kush.
who wrote a short walk in the hindu kush?
eric newby
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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.
a short walk in the hindu kush
the hindu kush system stretches about laterally, and its median north-south measurement is about . only about of the hindu kush system is called the "hindu kush mountains". the rest of the system consists of numerous smaller mountain ranges. rivers that flow from the mountain system include the helmand river, the hari river and the kabul river, watersheds for the sistan basin. the lower sistan basin gets little rainfall (~50 mm per year) and the main source of water is the helmand river which brings snowmelt water from the southern hindu kush. the smaller khash, the farah and the arashkan (harut) rivers bring water from the western hindu kush. the basin of these rivers serves the ecology and economy of the region west to hindu kush, but the water flow in these rivers fluctuates severely and has been a historical problem for any settlement. extreme and extended droughts have been common.
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