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The Places in Between (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed)
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The Places in Between (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed)
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List price R492
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Discovery Miles 3 760
You Save R116 (24%)
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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 companion-a retired fighting
mastiff he named Babur in honor of Afghanistan's first Mughal
emperor, in whose footsteps the pair was following.
Through these encounters-by turns touching, con-founding,
surprising, and funny-Stewart makes tangible the forces of
tradition, ideology, and allegiance that shape life in the map's
countless places in between.
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