Making of a Frontier Five Years Experiences And Adventures in Gilgit Hunza
The book Making of a Frontier Five Years Experiences And Adventures in Gilgit Hunza was written by author Algernon George Arnold Durand Here you can read free online of Making of a Frontier Five Years Experiences And Adventures in Gilgit Hunza book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Making of a Frontier Five Years Experiences And Adventures in Gilgit Hunza a good or bad book?
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Huge cliffs crowned the slope, and made this one of the most difficult pieces of road, from a military point of view, that we had yet passed. During our two last marches we saw conglomerate cliffs and rocks full of garnets, some very fine white sandstone, and in one place a cliff of clay, which was said to be full of gold. Nagar lies off the main valley, some three miles up another stream, and the last few miles into it the road ran almost without interruption through cultivation. The fruit tre...es were a sight to see, apricot trees bending under a burden of red gold fruit, their harvest just beginning, and every house roof, and any other available flat space, was covered with the fruit drying in the sun. As we turned our backs on the main valley the view was superb. Behind us Kukapushi rose in gigantic precipices of thousands of feet of snow and ice, while across the river above Hunza towered another great mountain, its crest broken by sharp granite peaks on which no snow can rest. Its lower spurs are jagged and bare, and below them lay a large semi-circle, one mass of 1889] ENTRY INTO NAGAR 151 villages and of cultivation, the terraced fields carried right down into the river bed.
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