by Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Isabel Fargo Cole
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Travelogue of a visit to Afghanistan by Swiss German lesbian radical shortly before WWII. Lots of lovely landscape descriptions, people exoticized if in a well-meaning way, more focuson architecture and landscape than people. (It is so odd to me, how little she mentions people even when she's talkin...