A vintage of travel writing, ‘A Brief Walk in the Hindu Kush’ is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.

It was 1956, and Eric Newby was earning an improbable surviving in the chaotic family members business of London haute couture. Pining for experience, Newby sent his friend Hugh Carless the now-famous wire – CAN YOU TRAVEL NURISTAN JUNE? – setting in motion a legendary trip from Mayfair to Afghanistan, and the about A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush mountains from the Hindu Kush, north-east of Kabul. Inexperienced and ill prepared (their arrangements involved only some tips from a Welsh waitress), the amateurish rogues embark on a month of adventure and hardship in one of the most amazing wildernesses on earth – a trip that adventurers with more experience and feeling may do not have carried out. With great humour, sharpened wit and keen observation, the enchanting narrative style of ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ would soon crystallise Newby’s reputation among the most significant travel writers of all time.

One of the biggest travel classics in one of Britain’s best-loved travel writers, this edition includes new photographs, an epilogue from Newby’s traveling partner, Hugh Carless, and a prologue from one of Newby’s greatest proponents, Evelyn Waugh.