Note: After the review is a Vidangel Versus -- this time it's Cowboys and Indians. When I was in college, I read a poorly written science fiction novel which, I believe, was call Khyber Pass - but I can't find any reference to a sci fi book by that name; perhaps I've forgotten the actual name. I do remember that the Khyber Pass (which is between Kabul and Peshawar) played a prominent role in the book. I remember nothing else about that book--except the cover was bluish with a guy in a white coat holding some kind of firearm. The book did get me interested in the actual history of the Khyber Pass. I looked for and found a book--I believe it was called The Northwest Passage -- which was confusing, because I thought the northwest passage referred to the waterway through North America connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (and which didn't exist, notwithstanding the great confidence in its existence)--about the history and significance of the pass. That book was e...