[.ca] Car Grease for the Camel: A Road Journey Across Afghanistan (ISBN 1424118921)

Afghanistan where time stood still.:
The world is very familiar with the scenes of modern Afghanistan, but this remote Central Asian nation was not always the war-torn desert it currently is. Zia Rehman, a native of the town fo Sibbi, located near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, takes the reader to a different time when his homeland was a tourist resort for European and American vacationers. In Car Grease for the Camel, Rehman shares his memories of a 1969 road journey through Afghanistan and details his mingling and friendships with the locals and their folkways, manners and mores, weaving his stories with Afghan history, background and interesting, sometimes-amusing episodes of behavior of their kings, tribal chiefs and mullahs.