Among the Mountains: Travels Through Asia

Published in 1998, Thesiger wrote this from his journal entires of multiple trips to the mountains of Central Asia. Initially putting together a book of his photography from these trips, he was encouraged to adapt his journal in this manner. Perhaps for this reason, the writing doesn't have the flow of his usual work, but is still quite readable. It often has the repetition of a diarised book - in that each day consists of packing up, moving on, eating and finding a place to sleep.More than the text, the photographs in this book are great. Not only the excellent landscapes, but also the portraits for which Thesiger is so well known. There a a lot of photos - the book is only 165 pages, but there are around 45 un-numbered pages of black and white photographs.The trips covered in this book are Chitral in 1952, Hunza in 1953, Hazarajat in 1954, Nuristan in 1956, and again in 1965, as well as a preface in Iraqi Kurdistan 1950-51 and a brief Epilogue in Ladakh in 1983.In the 1956 Nuristan section, Thesiger writes about his memorable encounter with Eric Newby and Hugh Carless, as told by Newby in [b:A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush 17315827 A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush Eric Newby https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1489718375l/17315827.SX50.jpg 113723].Four stars from me, but everything Thesiger does is great from my perspective.