Places in Between
by:
Rory Stewart (author)
Rory Stewart,Paperback - New Edition, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Books Canada, Limited
Rory Stewart,Paperback - New Edition, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Books Canada, Limited
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143053309 (0143053302)
Publish date: August 29th 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Politics,
Asia,
Biography Memoir
A crazy Scotsman walks across post-Taliban Afghanistan. Great insight into rural Islamic society; some great history along with some crazy stories.
It might not be Robert d. Kaplan, but stewart's work is competent, professional, and descriptive and at 2.99 that amazon this month, accepted as service to the world it is
The author walked across Afghanistan! Yes, all the way on foot. The book covers his travels from Herat to Kabul over the mountains in the winter of 2001, after the US invasion. Rather foolhardy/dangerous, but I enjoyed hearing about his meetings with the Afghans of different ethnic groups. A Afghan ...
I read this because a close friend said it was a good book (no, this close friend is not on Goodreads. He doesn't do social networking sites).It is a good book.At times the comments are so British, the type that you can't see coming from anyone else but someone who is British.One of the reviews her...
One wonders why Stewart took off across Afghanistan by foot, in winter. Yes, he says that he was walking across that swath of Asia and had to go back to fill in the part he missed, but never really says what the walk meant to him. Knowing its meaning might have mediated this and other readers' senti...
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