The Man Who Would Be King

The First American In Afghanistan

BY BEN MACINTYRE

Brief Description:
Afghan warlord and a Quaker? Well not at the same time, but this is an extraordinary biography of an extraordinary man born near Philadelphia in 1799 to Quaker parents. Soldier, spy, doctor, traveler and writer, a failed love affair took him to Afghanistan and there he eventually forged his own kingdom, before being expelled by the British. Kipling based his book "The Man who would be King" on his life.

Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2005 365 PP Paper

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