The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan.(Book review)

From: Middle East Quarterly | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Rubin, Michael | Copyright information

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan. By Ben MacIntyre. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.351 pp. $14.

In Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King, a young adventurer named Daniel Dravot penetrates feudal Afghanistan disguised as a cleric. In this nonfiction account with a similar title, MacIntyre, a columnist for The Times' of London, tells the story of the real life adventurer who may have been Kipling's inspiration. He describes the...

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