Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Chitral: The Story of a Minor Siege
Spring, in the villages, bursts forth like magic: one week is cold, the earth frozen; the next finds the almond trees decked with gay blossoms, the willows in strings of green beads, the orchards scattering wide their super?uous glories. Autumn is perfect - still more beautiful - for the variegated leaves are lavish of their splendours, and the planes stand out as if stamped in Copper. Winter is frigid and harsh, but dry and nearly windless, so Sheltered are the great deep valleys with their hanging masses of snow ready, at any moment, to topple over and roll down irresistibly in thunder and smoke. But there are compensations for the prevailing dreariness; red rhubarb leaves, dried for fodder, look pretty stacked in the branches of some convenient tree; and with ice, frozen cataracts, fantastic snow-wreaths.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
