Download or read book Dust of the Saints written by Radek Sikorski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a record of a dangerous journey in disguise from the Pakistan border across Soviet-occupied Afghanistan to the city of Herat. One of the Holy shrines of Islam, Herat was renowned for the beauty of its mosques and mausolea, yet according to rumour, many of them had been destroyed in the eight years of fighting since the anti-Communist rising of 1979.