Caravans a novel Author:James Michener Ellen Jaspar, native of Dorset, Pennsylvania, recently married to an Afghan engineer, has not been heard from for thirteen months. The job of finding her falls to a young member of the staff of the American Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan -- Mark Miller, who is the narrator of this extraordinary novel. The time: March, 1946. — This is a sensitive... more » assignment, requiring tact and patience, but apparently unexciting. His search, however, involves Mark Miller in a series of unexpected and perilous adventures, and takes him to wild and remote parts of the kingdom. What he finds out about the missing girs, about himself, about the past and present of fabulous contry, and about Mira, the beautiful nomad girl who teaches him many things -- these and man other discoveries the reader also makes and shares intimately with him.« less