Shortly before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, David Chaffetz and a fellow American student immersed themselves in the customs, fears, and hopes of the Afghan people, setting out on horseback through the mountains and into a lonely, hermetic world of nomads and isolated villages. This vivid, honest, and often poignant account is now available again with a new foreword, written in the fall of 2001, by Chaffetz's travel companion, Willard Wood.
