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Gattung/Form: | Nonfiction |
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Name: | Rory Stewart; Rory Stewart; Rory Stewart; Rory Stewart |
Medienart: | Biografie, Internetquelle |
Dokumenttyp | Buch, Internet-Ressource |
Alle Autoren: |
Rory Stewart |
ISBN: | 0156031566 9780156031561 9781447271062 1447271068 |
OCLC-Nummer: | 62282105 |
Anmerkungen: | Originally published: Great Britain : Picador, 2004. "A Harvest original." |
Auszeichnungen: | Short-listed for John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2004 (UK) Long-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2004 (UK) |
Beschreibung: | xii, 299 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
Inhalt: | New civil service -- Tanks into sticks -- Whether on the shores of Asia -- Chicago and Paris -- Huma -- Fare forward -- These boots -- Qasim -- Impersonal pronoun -- Tajik village -- Emir of the West -- Caravanserai, whose portals -- To a blind man's eye -- Genealogies -- Lest he returning chide -- Crown jewels -- Bread and water -- Fighting man shall -- Nothing man -- Highland buildings -- Missionary dance -- Mirrored cat's-eye shades -- Marrying a Muslim -- War dog -- Commandant Haji (Moalem) Mohsin Khan of Kamenj cousins -- Minaret of jam -- Traces in the ground -- Between jam and chaghcharan -- Dawn prayers -- Little lord -- Frogs -- Windy place -- Name navigation -- Greeting of strangers -- Leaves on the ceiling -- Flames -- Zia of Katlish -- Sacred guest -- Cave of Zarin -- Devotions -- Defiles of the valley -- Intermediate stages of death -- Winged footprints -- Blair and the Koran -- Salt ground and spikenard -- Pale circles in walls -- @afghangov.org -- While the note lasts -- Footprints on the ceiling -- I am the zoom -- Karaman -- Khalili's troops -- And I have mine -- Scheme of generation -- Source of the Kabul River -- Taliban -- Toes -- Marble -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments. |
Verfasserangabe: | Rory Stewart. |
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Thank goodness for brave people doing crazy things and for a writer in the tradition of Thesiger and Thubron * Spectator * An insight into the country that few could match * New Statesman * Wise, funny and marvelously humane -- Michael Ignatieff An astonishing achievement: a unique journey of great courage -- Colin Thubron This evocative book feels like a long lost relic of the great age of exploration * Guardian * [Stewart] must have balls of steel, but he writes like and angel all the same -- Giles Foden With a deft, at time poetic vividness, he describes an awesome landscape, scarred by a present and a past of violence and death . . . His encounters with Afghans are tragic, touching and terrifying * Daily Telegraph * This is traveling at its hardest and travel-writing at its best -- David Gilmour Weiterlesen…


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