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Author Hafvenstein, Joel.

Title Opium season : a year on the Afghan frontier / Joel Hafvenstein.

Imprint Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  958.1047 H119o 2007    ---  Available
Description viii, 337 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-328) and index.
Contents Prelude : the end -- Little America -- Yaqub -- City of dust -- Mullah Omar's drought -- Into the minefield -- Salaam to Helmand -- A million dollars a mile -- The place of the soldiers -- Jack of all trades -- The Babaji abduction -- Christmas in Helmand -- The warlords' vendetta -- Guns and poppies -- New California -- Traveling difficulties -- The way of love -- Good cop, bad cop -- Politics as usual -- The royal bungalow -- The indispensable warlords -- Back on track -- Gunfire in the backyard -- Valley of death -- Defining success -- Three days in May -- In limbo -- Helmand at war -- Badakhshan.
Subject Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-2021.
Afghanistan -- Description and travel.
Economic assistance, American -- Afghanistan.
Opium trade -- Afghanistan.
Hafvenstein, Joel -- Travel -- Afghanistan.
ISBN 1599211319
9781599211312
Standard No. QBX a 07034177
AU@ 000042110837

 
    
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