Offering an intimate look at the people and places of Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan, this memoir by adventurer and historian Mathew Wilson recounts journeys into remote areas as a member of the British army and with his family in the late 1960s. Wilson relates stories of crossing the Hindu Kush with his pregnant wife and two-year-old son and running a gauntlet of armed border guards to get his injured son to a hospital. Twenty-one years later, Wilson returned to honor a promise made to a Hindu priest in Central India-to seek, find, and follow the fleeting shadow of the Rani of Jhansi, one of the heroines of India's 1957 revolt against British rule.

这部由冒险家和历史学家马修-威尔逊撰写的回忆录对阿富汗、印度和巴基斯坦的人民和地方进行了深入的了解，讲述了他在20世纪60年代末作为英国军队成员和家人一起进入偏远地区的旅程。威尔逊讲述了他带着怀孕的妻子和两岁的儿子穿越兴都库什山脉的故事，以及为了把受伤的儿子送到医院而与武装边防人员周旋的故事。二十一年后，威尔逊回到印度中部履行对一位印度教牧师的承诺--寻找、发现并追随詹西的拉妮那稍纵即逝的影子，她是印度1957年反抗英国统治的女英雄之一。