Caravans
A Novel of Afghanistan
$49.17
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
9 September 2003
Summary
The classic novel from Michener, reissued in a gorgeous new package, featuring a new introduction by Steve Berry.
First published in 1963, James A. Michener’s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment- finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812969825 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812969820 |
| Author: | James A. Michener, Steve Berry |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 September 2003 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 139mm x 19mm |
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Critics Review
“Brilliant … an extraordinary novel … The old nomadic trails across the mountains spring into existence.” – The New York Times
“Brilliant … an extraordinary novel … The old nomadic trails across the mountains spring into existence.”—The New York Times “Romantic and adventurous … [Michener] has a wonderful empathy for the wild and free and an understanding of the reasons behind the kind of cruelty that goes with it.”—Newsday “Michener has done for Afghanistan what … his first [book] did for the South Pacific.”—The New York Herald Tribune
About The Author
James A. Michener
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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