Among Muslims

Kathleen Jamie's account of the time she spent travelling in Pakistan's Northern Areas and living with the people of the mountain village of Gilgit.

Poetic and warm, Jamie writes of the characters she meets in Gilgit - Rashida, Jamila, the Major, of their lives, their husbands, wives and children. Words that bring out the kindness of the strangers she encounters as a traveller, who soon become her friends. A lone young woman, these people were as concerned about her as they were interested in why she was on her own.

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