Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Places In Between

1:25 PM | Posted by robin | Edit Post



This is an extraordinary story of a journey undertaken by Rory Stewart.

I would recommend this book to readers for two main reasons.

The first is that this is an incredibly detailed depiction of life in secret locations in Afghanistan. The coverage of the events in Afghanistan focuses largely on where accidents occur and what the politicians of working hours. We are able to focus on women's rights, but how realistic is successfully applied in small countries whereThe tradition dates back hundreds of years, and where the priority is how they get their daily diet to support with food? Give the people the right to vote can also be achieved by the Western-style democracy in the country only on laws?

The other aspect of the book is a fascinating journey into the past. The links for the Mughal emperor Babur rule are fascinating. The destruction of many cultural and historical heritage through war is a reminder of what weThe politicians are destroying us, if you start wars for reasons of power, economic resources, or simply different philosophies. Rory Stewart's account also reminds us of how this can be blocked in the world of bureaucratic organizations.

Better maps would have helped the reader to follow Stewart's Travels have been much better. The writing style can be improved. The long notes are important, but broke into the reading of the text. were also extracted from the diaries during Baburvery interesting, which affects the flow of the narrative.

It 'a great achievement by Rory Stewart, but, as some critics have pointed out, must have been a political dimension of his journey, because it is inconceivable that he would have survived so long by myself, if it is clearly very dangerous areas. If you have more support, one wonders why he has not designated it in his fiction.

So, from different angles, it is the bookto read.



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  • ISBN13: 9780156031561
  • Condition: USED - Good
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The Places In Between Overview


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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