Showing posts with label Khyber Pass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Khyber Pass. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 September 2009

A mighty if



It was a mighty ‘if’, of course, but funny things happen north of the Khyber…



Flashman at the Charge, p.209, Pan edition, 5th printing, 1979.




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Wednesday, 14 May 2008

We rode north


In the morning we rode north into one of the world’s awful places – the great pass of the Khyber, where the track twists among the sun-scorched cliffs and the peaks seem to crouch in ambush for the traveller



Flashman, p.83, Pan edition, 12th printing, 1979.



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