Generations of Linforths have pushed a military road up the valley of Chiltistan toward the Hindu Kush, and the people have repeatedly cut it. Shere Ali, the heir to Chiltistan, is sent to school in England alongside young Dick Linforth, and returns home to find he belongs fully to neither world.
A thoughtful adventure novel on empire and race; its imperial assumptions are those of 1907. Download the free EPUB.