The man who would be king

the first American in Afghanistan

Describes the life of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker who travelled to Afghanistan in the 1820s, became a surgeon for the Maharaja of Punjab although he had no medical training, assisted the exiled Afghan king, and was commander in chief of the Afghan armies.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2004
9780374201784
book

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