The Places In Between [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Stewart Rory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447271068 ISBN 13: 9781447271062

Verlag: Pan Macmillan UK, 2014

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Rory Stewart's moving, sparsely poetic account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 has been immediately hailed as a classic. Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time, Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible, mountainous route once taken by the Mohgul Emperor, Babur the Great, Stewart was nearly defeated by the extreme, hostile conditions., Only due to the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way, did he survive to report back with unique insight on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war. 'This is traveling at its hardest and travel-writing at its best' - David Gilmour 'an astonishing achievement: a unique journey of great courage' - Colin Thubron 'wise, funny and marvelously humane' - Michael Ignatieff '[this] evocative book feels like a long lost relic of the great age of exploration' - Guardian 'His encounters with Afghans are tragic, touching and terrifying.' - Daily Telegraph

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Críticas:

Thank goodness for brave people doing crazy things and for a writer in the tradition of Thesiger and Thubron * Spectator * An insight into the country that few could match * New Statesman * Wise, funny and marvelously humane -- Michael Ignatieff An astonishing achievement: a unique journey of great courage -- Colin Thubron This evocative book feels like a long lost relic of the great age of exploration * Guardian * [Stewart] must have balls of steel, but he writes like and angel all the same -- Giles Foden With a deft, at time poetic vividness, he describes an awesome landscape, scarred by a present and a past of violence and death . . . His encounters with Afghans are tragic, touching and terrifying * Daily Telegraph * This is traveling at its hardest and travel-writing at its best -- David Gilmour

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'An astonishing achievement: a unique journey of great courage' Colin Thubron

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Award and the Spirit of Scotland Award.

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize.

Rory Stewart's moving account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 was immediately hailed as a classic. Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible mountainous route once taken by the Mogul Emperor Babur the Great, Stewart was nearly defeated by the extreme, hostile conditions. Only with the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way did he survive to report back with unique insight on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war.

'Stewart must have balls of steel, but he writes like an angel all the same' Giles Foden

'An insight into the country that few could match' New Statesman

'Stewart is so far off the beaten track that his evocative book feels like a long lost relic of the great age of exploration' Guardian

'Thank goodness for brave people doing crazy things and for a writer in the tradition of Thesiger and Thubron' Spectator

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• Verlag: Pan Macmillan UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1447271068
• ISBN 13: 9781447271062
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1