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PUBLISHER: Picador

ISBN: 9780330486347

PAGES: 324p.

PUBLICATION DATE:
January 4, 2005

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The Places In Between

A brilliant account of a death defying walk through
Afghanistan Rory Stewart’s sparsely poetic, and highly acclaimed account of
his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 has been hailed as a modern
classic of travel writing. Travelling entirely on foot and following the
inaccessible, mountainous route, Stewart was nearly defeated by the hostile
conditions. With the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of
the people he met on the way, however, he survived to report back on a
region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war.

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