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Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier is a first-hand account by Dr. Theodore Leighton Pennell of the 16 years that he spent as a medical missionary at the medical mission station at Bannu (in present-day Pakistan) on the Northwest Frontier of India. The book was first published in 1908; presented here is the fourth edition of 1927. Pennell begins with a chapter entitled “The Afghan Character,” which is followed by several chapters discussing Afghan traditions, the geography of the border region, and the prevalence of tribal feuds and ...