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Harvest Books
May 2006
On Sale: May 8, 2006
320 pages
ISBN: 0156031566
EAN: 9780156031561
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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.
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