En Afghanistan by Rory Stewart

En Afghanistan by Rory Stewart

Stupendous . . . an instant travel classic. Entertainment Weekly
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, confounding, surprising, and funny Stewart makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, and allegiance that shape life in the map's countless places in between.
Rory Stewart has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books, and is the author of The Prince of the Marshes. A former infantry officer, diplomat in Indonesia and Yugoslavia, and fellow at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the British government for his services in Iraq. He now lives in Kabul, where he has established the Turquoise Mountain Foundation.

RORY STEWART is the best-selling author of The Prince of the Marshes and The Spaces in Between. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services in Iraq as the former director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy and Ryan Professor of Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is a Conservative member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border, a Northern Cumbria area where he and his wife live.

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ISBN 13	9782226189837
ISBN 10	2226189831
Title	En Afghanistan
Author	Rory Stewart
Series	Collections Litterature
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Michel albin SA
Year published	2009-03-01
Number of pages	336
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