An American Engineer in AfghanistanAn American Engineer in Afghanistan was first published in 1948. The legend of Afghanistan as The Forbidden Country grew chiefly from a warning of the British Indian Government which once guarded the Afghan frontier north of the Khyber Pass It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghanistan. A glance at the endsheet map in this book will recall its strategic position in the Middle East. When A. C. Jewett entered in 1911 with an escort