Ray Madeline Van Dinther

Beyond Afghanistan Ray Madeline Van Dinther

Includes original 1970 photographs A first hand account of the 1970, 1971 journey made by two British Art Students, who travelled and lived in a kombi van for five months driving overland from England through Europe, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, then on by public transport through Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, New Guinea to Australia. With minimal money, little food and less knowledge together with no experience of the countries they would visit, they departed with unreliable maps and the confidence of the young to countries only briefly imagined previously. The matter of fact, tongue in cheek narrative belies the risks they encountered during their travels.. Once committed to the journey there was no opportunity to turn back. They were Immersed in the varying cultures, living day by precarious day as they made their way from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere through some of the most volatile countries on the planet.