A Merry Dance Around the World With Eric Newby (44 page)

Shepherdess in the Apennines near the village of pracchiola.

Wanda’s mother with friends in Slovenia.

On the way to the Hindu Kush. Hugh Carless sitting for a pilgrim photograph in Meshed, the holy city in north-eastern Iran.

Not feeling so good in Nuristan, 1956.

Tajik villages in the Panjshir valley on the way to Nuristan.

Hazards of travel by rail at Kasganj Junction.

Calcutta: disembarking at the Armenian ghat downstream of the Howrah Bridge after descending the Ganges from Hardwar.

Football match at Banaras.

Youthful devotee on the bank of the Ganges, 1961.

Hindu pilgrims wading ashore at Sagar Island, where the Ganges reaches the sea in the Bay of Bengal.

Pilgrim encampment on Sagar Island.