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Travels in a dervish cloak, Isambard Wilkinson ; photographs by Chev Wilkinson

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Travels in a dervish cloak, Isambard Wilkinson ; photographs by Chev Wilkinson

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eng

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non fiction

Main title

Travels in a dervish cloak

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Isambard Wilkinson ; photographs by Chev Wilkinson

Summary

Spellbound by his grandmother's Anglo-Indian heritage and the exuberant annual visits of her friend the Begum, Isambard Wilkinson became enthralled by Pakistan as a teenager, eventually working there as a foreign correspondent during the War on Terror. Seeking the land behind the headlines, he sets out to discover the essence of a country convulsed by Islamist violence. What of the old, mystical Pakistan has survived and what has been destroyed? We meet charismatic tribal chieftains making their last stand, hereditary saints blessing prostitutes, gangster bosses in violent slums and ecstatic Muslim pilgrims. Navigating a minefield of coups, conspiracies, cock-ups and bombs, Bard is reluctant to judge; his is a funny, hashish- and whisky-scented travel book from the frontline, full of open-hearted delight and a poignant lust for life

Table Of Contents

Entrance -- Preamble -- ch. 1 A Visit to the Begum -- ch. 2 A Capital Place -- Baluchistan: Black Sheep -- ch. 3 On the Trail of the Nawab -- ch. 4 In the Lair of the Nawab -- Punjab: The Land of Chummcha, Chaudhry and Chilli -- ch. 5 Ground Realities -- ch. 6 The Demi-Monde of Zeenat -- ch. 7 My Feudal Lord -- ch. 8 A Close Shave -- ch. 9 Sparrow Brains and Ketchup -- Sindh: Land of Saints and Slaves -- ch. 10 Heath Robinson Country -- ch. 11 The Real Pakistan -- ch. 12 Season Change -- ch. 13 A Rigid Celibatarian -- ch. 14 Prophecies -- ch. 15 Return of an Empress -- ch. 16 Letting Go -- The Mountains: A Lost World -- ch. 17 Corruptus in Extremis -- ch. 18 Land of Mirth and Murder -- ch. 19 Infidels -- ch. 20 Fratricidal Tendency -- ch. 21 Old Man of the Mountain -- Afghania: Bullocks and Wasps -- ch. 22 Bogeyman -- ch. 23 Rum, Bum and Rebab -- ch. 24 Passing up the Khyber -- ch. 25 We Have Come to Correct Things -- Exit -- Last Amble

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