Recommended Reading from Amazon.com: A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby's account of his 1956 trek through the Nuristan Mountains in northeast Afghanistan (paperback $10.36). Also available in hardcover and in audio cassette. A more recent publication is Jason Elliot's Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan, reviewed in the New York Times on February 16, 2001 and April 8, 2001. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid provides a perspective by a Pakistani journalist, whose Wretched Afghanistan recently appeared in the Washington Post. (See also Non-Fiction Page Turners.) For pictures of Afghanistan, see Images of Afghanistan in 1976-78 by Douglas R. Powell. Robert D. Kaplan writes about the tribal lands of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in The Lawless Frontier, Atlantic, September 2000. The Making of American digital project offers Afghanistan and the English by S. Wells Williams, The New Englander, vol. 38, issue 148 (Jan 1879). The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has information on refugees in Afghanistan.