An English doctor travels the road to Kabul to serve as surgeon to the Amir Abdur Rahman, the strong man who had remade Afghanistan’s government. He describes his reception, Afghan hospitals and houses, the court and its ceremonies, his patient’s illnesses and moods, and the everyday life of a country few Europeans were allowed to see.
A rare close-up portrait of a formidable ruler and his capital in the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.