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_cM566 2008
100 1 _aMinott, Janice.
245 1 0 _aLetters from Kabul, 1966-1968 :
_ba memoir /
_cby Janice Minott.
260 _aVictoria, B.C., Canada :
_bTrafford,
_c©2008.
300 _axxxvi, 361 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm.
505 _aContents: Acknowledgments—Forewords—Introduction by Gregory Blass—Preface / by the author—Chapter one : walking these streets evokes bible times—Chapter two : the whole country gets a bit wild during August—Chapter three : lessons and boundaries—Chapter four : Bamiyan, Buzkashi, and the Carvan road—Chapter five : a landmark month—Chapter six : the old year ends, the new begins—Feeling at home—February 1967—Chapter seven : a month of new experiences—Chapter eight : our first Kabul spring—Chapter nine : war looms in the middle east—Chapter ten : lull after the six-day war—Chapter eleven : fleeing Kabul dust storms for the green vale of Kashmir—Chapter twelve : hosting a California teacher after her close call in Iran—Chapter thirteen : my VW becomes an after-hours taxi—Chapter fourteen : we buy tickets for the SS United States—Chapter fifteen : a look in the rearview mirror—Going home—March—May 1968—Chapter sixteen : longing for old familiar faces, and the sadness of farewell—Chapter seventeen : returning home, reentry, and reconfiguration—Afterword’s—Christopher reflects—The last word.
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600 2 0 _aMinott, Janice – Correspondence.
650 0 _aBiography.
651 0 _aAfghanistan – Kabul.
651 0 _aKabul (Afghanistan) – Biography.
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