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The Places in Between by Rory Stewart (2006, Trade Paperback)
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- ISBN
- 9780156031561
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156031566
ISBN-13
9780156031561
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48637995
Product Key Features
Book Title
Places in between
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Asia / Southwest, Modern / 20th Century, Asia / Central, Customs & Traditions, Middle East / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
8.7 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-032213
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Remarkable...Gripping account of a courageous journey, observed with a scholar's eye and a humanitarian's heart., PRAISE FOR THE PLACES IN BETWEEN "A striding, glorious book . . . Learned but gentle, tough but humane, Stewart . . . writes with a mystic's appreciation of the natural world, a novelist's sense of character and a comedian's sense of timing . . . A flat-out masterpiece . . . The Places in Between is, in very nearly every sense, too good to be true."--The New York Times Book Review "A splendid tale that is by turns wryly humorous, intensely observant, and humanely unsentimental."--Christian Science Monitor "Stupendous . . . an instant travel classic."--Entertainment Weekly "Stewart's 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, sets a new standard for cool nerve and hot determination . . . His description of the landscapes he traverses makes you feel you're accompanying him through a shifting, sculpted painting . . . Sublimely written."--The Seattle Times "Stunning . . . That he has written a remarkable memoir of his trek might contribute greatly not only to our reading pleasure, but to our understanding of Afghanistan in the 21st century . . . The Places in Between effectively depicts the spectacularly stark landscape, the utter poverty and the devastation of decades of war. But far more interesting are the men . . . Stewart met along the way." --The Plain Dealer, We never really find out why Stewart decided to walk across Afghanistan only a few months after the Taliban were deposed, but what emerges from the last leg of his two-year journey across Asia is a lesson in good travel writing. By turns harrowing and meditative, Stewart's trek through Afghanistan in the footsteps of the 15th-century emperor Babur is edifying at every step, grounded by his knowledge of local history, politics and dialects. His prose is lean and unsentimental: whether pushing through chest-high snow in the mountains of Hazarajat or through villages still under de facto Taliban control, his descriptions offer a cool assessment of a landscape and a people eviscerated by war, forgotten by time and isolated by geography. The well-oiled apparatus of his writing mimics a dispassionate camera shutter in its precision. But if we are to accompany someone on such a highly personal quest, we want to know who that person is. Unfortunately, Stewart shares little emotional background; the writer's identity is discerned best by inference. Sometimes we get the sense he cares more for preserving history than for the people who live in it (and for whom historical knowledge would be luxury). But remembering Geraldo Rivera's gunslinging escapades, perhaps we could use less sap and more clarity about this troubled and fascinating country.(, PRAISE FOR THE PLACES IN BETWEEN "A striding, glorious book . . . Learned but gentle, tough but humane, Stewart . . . writes with a mystic's appreciation of the natural world, a novelist's sense of character and a comedian's sense of timing . . . A flat-out masterpiece . . . The Places in Between is, in very nearly every sense, too good to be true."- The New York Times Book Review "A splendid tale that is by turns wryly humorous, intensely observant, and humanely unsentimental."- Christian Science Monitor "Stupendous . . . an instant travel classic."- Entertainment Weekly "Stewart's 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, sets a new standard for cool nerve and hot determination . . . His description of the landscapes he traverses makes you feel you're accompanying him through a shifting, sculpted painting . . . Sublimely written." -The Seattle Times "Stunning . . . That he has written a remarkable memoir of his trek might contribute greatly not only to our reading pleasure, but to our understanding of Afghanistan in the 21st century . . . The Places in Between effectively depicts the spectacularly stark landscape, the utter poverty and the devastation of decades of war. But far more interesting are the men . . . Stewart met along the way." - The Plain Dealer , Remarkable...Gripping account of a courageous journey, observed with a scholar''s eye and a humanitarian''s heart., PRAISE FOR THE PLACES IN BETWEEN "A striding, glorious book . . . Learned but gentle, tough but humane, Stewart . . . writes with a mystic's appreciation of the natural world, a novelist's sense of character and a comedian's sense of timing . . . A flat-out masterpiece . . . The Places in Between is, in very nearly every sense, too good to be true."--The New York Times Book Review "A splendid tale that is by turns wryly humorous, intensely observant, and humanely unsentimental."--Christian Science Monitor "Stupendous . . . an instant travel classic."--Entertainment Weekly "Stewart's 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, sets a new standard for cool nerve and hot determination . . . His description of the landscapes he traverses makes you feel you're accompanying him through a shifting, sculpted painting . . . Sublimely written."--The Seattle Times "Stunning . . . That he has written a remarkable memoir of his trek might contribute greatly not only to our reading pleasure, but to our understanding of Afghanistan in the 21st century . . . The Places in Between effectively depicts the spectacularly stark landscape, the utter poverty and the devastation of decades of war. But far more interesting are the men . . . Stewart met along the way." --The Plain Dealer --, Stunning...ContributeÝs¨ greatly not only to our reading pleasure, but to our understanding of Afghanistan., PRAISE FOR THE PLACES IN BETWEEN "A striding, glorious book . . . Learned but gentle, tough but humane, Stewart . . . writes with a mystic's appreciation of the natural world, a novelist's sense of character and a comedian's sense of timing . . . A flat-out masterpiece . . . The Places in Between is, in very nearly every sense, too good to be true."-- The New York Times Book Review "A splendid tale that is by turns wryly humorous, intensely observant, and humanely unsentimental."-- Christian Science Monitor "Stupendous . . . an instant travel classic."-- Entertainment Weekly "Stewart's 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, sets a new standard for cool nerve and hot determination . . . His description of the landscapes he traverses makes you feel you're accompanying him through a shifting, sculpted painting . . . Sublimely written." --The Seattle Times "Stunning . . . That he has written a remarkable memoir of his trek might contribute greatly not only to our reading pleasure, but to our understanding of Afghanistan in the 21st century . . . The Places in Between effectively depicts the spectacularly stark landscape, the utter poverty and the devastation of decades of war. But far more interesting are the men . . . Stewart met along the way." -- The Plain Dealer, UK PRAISE FOR THE PLACES IN BETWEEN "[Stewart's] encounters with Afghans are tragic, touching and terrifying; they all have the ring of unembellished authenticity . . . A mature debut, and an intelligent and illuminating introduction to this fascinating, unfortunate country." -THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, Stunning...Contribute[s] greatly not only to our reading pleasure, but to our understanding of Afghanistan.
Grade From
Ninth Grade
Dewey Decimal
915.8
Table Of Content
Contents Preface xi The New Civil Service 1 Tanks into Sticks 6 Whether on the Shores of Asia 10 Part One 15 Chicago and Paris 17 Huma 19 Fare Forward 23 These Boots 30 Part Two 35 Qasim 37 Impersonal Pronoun 44 A Tajik Village 48 The Emir of the West 50 Caravanserai, Whose Portals . . . 56 To a Blind Man's Eye 62 Genealogies 69 Lest He Returning Chide . . . 74 Crown Jewels 85 Bread and Water 90 The Fighting Man Shall 95 A Nothing Man 99 Part Three 103 Highland Buildings 105 The Missionary Dance 112 Mirrored Cat's-Eye Shades 117 Marrying a Muslim 120 War Dog 127 Commandant Haji (Moalem) Mohsin Khan of Kamenj 134 Cousins 141 Part Four 145 The Minaret of Jam 147 Traces in the Ground 157 Between Jam and Chaghcharan 161 Dawn Prayers 164 Little Lord 167 Frogs 172 The Windy Place 177 Part Five 183 Name Navigation 185 The Greeting of Strangers 192 Leaves on the Ceiling 197 Flames 200 Zia of Katlish 203 The Sacred Guest 208 The Cave of Zarin 212 Devotions 217 The Defiles of the Valley 220 Part Six 227 The Intermediate Stages of Death 229 Winged Footprints 231 Blair and the Koran 234 Salt Ground and Spikenard 239 Pale Circles in Walls 242 @afghangov.org 245 While the Note Lasts 250 Part Seven 255 Footprints on the Ceiling 257 I Am the Zoom 260 Karaman 262 Khalili's Troops 266 And I Have Mine 270 The Scheme of Generation 273 The Source of the Kabul River 276 Taliban 279 Toes 285 Marble 289 Epilogue 295 Acknowledgments 299
Synopsis
A New York Times Bestseller This acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is "stupendous...an instant travel classic" ( Entertainment Weekly )., A New York Times Bestseller This acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is "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., 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., In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers as he makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, and allegiance., A New York Times BestsellerThis acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is "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.
LC Classification Number
DS352.S74 2006
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