Places In Between e-bog
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A New York Times BestsellerThis acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is "e;stupendous...an instant travel classic"e; (Entertainment Weekly).In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan, surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through...
E-bog
25,00 DKK
Forlag
Mariner Books
Udgivet
1 februar 2007
Længde
336 sider
Genrer
1F
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780156035934
A New York Times BestsellerThis acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is "e;stupendous...an instant travel classic"e; (Entertainment Weekly).In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan, surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving amid the remains of medieval civilizations. By night he slept on villagers' floors, shared their meals, and listened to their stories of the recent and ancient past. Along the way Stewart met heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers. He was also adopted by an unexpected companiona retired fighting mastiff he named Babur in honor of Afghanistan's first Mughal emperor, in whose footsteps the pair was following.Through these encountersby turns touching, confounding, surprising, and funnyStewart makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, and allegiance that shape life in the map's countless places in between.