by Rory Stewart
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...
Possibly my best book of the year. Maybe not the best-written, interms of literature, but definitely the one I've recommended, andgiven to, the most people.Rory Stewart's account of his decision to walk, solo, acrossAfghanistan, in 2002, shortly after the Taliban were deposed. In thecourse of the bo...
This Stewart guy has a pair of big brass ones-walking across Aghanistan in the shadow of the Taliban's defeat. He doesn't write as well as Robert Kaplan, another trekker of the world, but his stories are interesting nonetheless. There aren't many people in this story you want to meet but you get the...
Stewart is an upper class Brit who sustains the English tradition of adventurism. He has worked in Iraq (and done other things I cannot recall here) and in this book he tells of his walk across Afghanistan. It was an interesting tale, one in which he offers a picture of what life is like for many of...
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