Title Across the Hindu Kush / written and presented by Michael Wood ; producer, Rebecca Dobbs ; director, David Wallace ; A Maya Vision production for BBC

Published London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation, [1997]

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Description 1 online resource (63 minutes) : sound, color Summary Michael Wood makes his way through war-torn Afghanistan on a dramatic march with pack horses over the Hindu Kush Mountains. At Kabul, Michael finds himself in the middle of a siege of the city by the fundamentalist Taliban. Hiring horses for the camera equipment and armed guards to ward off ambushes, he sets off to follow Alexander's trail, 20,000ft up in the Hindu Kush Mountains, to make it through the Khawak Pass and Central Asia. On the other side, the historical traveller stays with a local warlord before pushing on by jeep across the Oxus river into former Soviet Central Asia.The journey finally leads to the city of Khodjent. Here, Michael hears of Alexander's increasingly unstable personality. At a drunken banquet in Samarkand, the conqueror murdered one of his closest associates, fought on through the silk route, and then captured and fell in love with the beautiful teenager Roxanne Notes Originally produced as episode 3 of, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great in 1997 Credits Executive producers, Leo Eaton, Laurence Ree ; Camera, Peter Harvey ; editor, Stephen Singleton ; music, John Eacott Performer Host, Michael Wood Notes In English Title from title screen (viewed February 1, 2022) Subject Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. -- Travel -- Asia SUBJECT Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C. fast (OCoLC)fst01800513 Subject Historic sites -- Asia Historic sites. SUBJECT Asia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008613 Subject Afghanistan. Genre/Form History. Internet videos. Television mini-series. Documentary television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Television programs. Vidéos sur Internet. Miniséries. Documentaires télévisés. Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction. Émissions télévisées. Form Streaming video Author Wallace, David (Producer), television director. Dobbs, Rebecca, television producer. Wood, Michael, 1948- screenwiter, host. Maya Vision International, production company. British Broadcasting Corporation, broadcaster, publisher.

Other Titles In the footsteps of Alexander the Great. Across the Hindu Kush In the footsteps of Alexander the Great. Episode 3 OTHER TI Contained in (work): In the footsteps of Alexander the Great (Television program)

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