Valley of the Giant Buddhas: Memoirs and Travel

by Morag Murray Abdullah

. Octagon Press, with dustjacket, bright clean copy, Professional booksellers since 1981

309 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1993

About the author

Saira Jamil Elizabeth Luiza Shah was a Scottish writer who wrote under the pen name Morag Murray Abdullah. She met the Afghan author, poet, diplomat, scholar, and savant Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah and wrote about her marriage to this chieftain's son and her travels in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan and the mountains of Afghanistan. They had three children, the Sufi writers and translators Amina Shah (b. 1918), Omar Ali-Shah (b. 1922) and Idries Shah (b. 1924).

Reviews

[Toni · Rating 5 out of 5]

As it says in the blurb. Stuff you will not find elsewhere. It is a surprising, even startling book. 'The huge melons arriving in the cities in netting sacks on donkey-back made a vivid splash of colour on the gray roads.' As someone said, probably Robert Twigger (36 Islands) go where the interest is. Go where the colour and light is. Valley of the Giant Buddhas is full of colour and light.