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Through the Heart of Afghanistan is an English translation of Emil Trinkler’s Quer durch Afghanistan nach Indien, published in Berlin in 1927. Trinkler (1896‒1931) was a German geographer and explorer who went to Afghanistan in 1923‒24 as a geologist for the German-Afghan Trading Company. The book is an account of Trinkler’s voyage, which began in Riga, Latvia, and included a trip by train across Russia followed by a seven-week delay at the Russian-Afghan border. Trinkler eventually succeeded in entering Afghanistan and traveled on to India. The ...