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Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books, and is the author of The Places in Between. A former fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, he was awarded the Order of the British... show more

Rory Stewart has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books, and is the author of The Places in Between. A former fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the British government for services in Iraq. He lives in Scotland.
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Birth date: January 03, 1973
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Viking2917's books
Viking2917's books rated it 11 years ago
A crazy Scotsman walks across post-Taliban Afghanistan. Great insight into rural Islamic society; some great history along with some crazy stories.
nouveau
nouveau rated it 12 years ago
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
Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it 12 years ago
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 ...
Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 15 years ago
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...
Osho
Osho rated it 15 years ago
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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