Kafiristan, Paropamisos, Bolor, Daraddesha, Dardistan, Po-lü are some of the names that have been given in the past to the remote mountain areas of the Hindu Kush and Karakoram that this book calls Peristan, a legendary, poetical place-name, meaning "land of the fairies", in homage to the invisible creatures who, according to local belief, haunt the peaks of this region. An imaginative title for a strictly scientific work of research, by two members of the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient (IsIAO, former IsMEO of Giuseppe Tucci).

IsIAO - Rome 2001