The Places In Between

The Places In Between
by Rory Stewart

The Places In Between
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Author: Rory Stewart
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-08
ISBN: 0156031566
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Harvest Books

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Book Review: Fantastic, intelligent narrator.
Summary: 5 Stars

At last- I have been waiting some time to find a book well writen, to the point and intelligent. The experience just illuminates my soul. This man's sensibility speaks to me directly. He carries the wisdom of the places he travels, observes and senses the Earth from a place of true love. No nonsense.

Summary of The Places In Between

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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