A unusually vivid memoir of lost Afghanistan and its people, first published in 1964 and returned to print with a new afterword by the author, who maintained a lifelong relationship with the country that so captivated her in the 1950s. Just out of college, Klass traveled to remote Afghanistan before the Russian occupation, to each in a village school, recording her impressions of the landscapes and beauty of the high land, Afghan traditions, and the friendships she made in this celebrated memoir,  (CAS151, $19.95)