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"To the Frontier" is a travelogue published in 1979 by British journalist and author Geoffrey Moorhouse. The book chronicles his overland journey from Delhi, India, through Pakistan, ultimately aiming for the mountainous and historically volatile North-West Frontier region. Moorhouse details his encounters with local communities and provides historical context for the area's complex political landscape. The narrative offers an observant look at the cultural and geographical realities of the subcontinent during the late 1970s.
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What route does Geoffrey Moorhouse describe in To the Frontier?
The book follows a three-month journey through Sind, Baluchistan, and the Punjab toward Pakistan's North-West Frontier and the Khyber Pass. Published descriptions place stages around Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, the Afghan border, and the mountains near Gilgit.
Is To the Frontier a history book or a travelogue?
It is a first-person travel narrative, but Moorhouse uses the journey to explain the region's history, politics, drug trade, and relationship with Afghanistan. The book is subtitled A Journey to the Khyber Pass and focuses on Pakistan's frontier rather than a fictional expedition.
What does the frontier mean in To the Frontier?
It refers to the North-West Frontier region of Pakistan near Afghanistan, with the Khyber Pass as the book's main destination. The route moves through rugged borderlands where travel, imperial history, local politics, and the Soviet-Afghan War era overlap.
When was To the Frontier first published?
Bibliographic records generally place the first Hodder and Stoughton edition in 1984, although later paperback listings carry dates such as 1986. The book also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for its year, so a 1979 date in a catalogue is likely an edition or metadata mismatch.
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