Places in Between

Name: Places in Between
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ISBN: 9780156031561

ISBN-10: 0156031566

ISBN-13: 9780156031561

Edition: 2006

Authors: Rory Stewart

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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…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


The New Civil Service


Tanks into Sticks


Whether on the Shores of Asia





Chicago and Paris


Huma


Fare Forward


These Boots





Qasim


Impersonal Pronoun


A Tajik Village


The Emir of the West


Caravanserai, Whose Portals . . .


To a Blind Man’s Eye


Genealogies


Lest He Returning Chide . . .


Crown Jewels


Bread and Water


The Fighting Man Shall


A Nothing Man





Highland Buildings


The Missionary Dance


Mirrored Cat’s - Eye Shades


Marrying a Muslim


War Dog


Commandant Haji (Moalem) Mohsin Khan of Kamenj


Cousins





The Minaret of Jam


Traces in the Ground


Between Jam and Chaghcharan


Dawn Prayers


Little Lord


Frogs


The Windy Place





Name Navigation


The Greeting of Strangers


Leaves on the Ceiling


Flames


Zia of Katlish


The Sacred Guest


The Cave of Zarin


Devotions


The Defiles of the Valley





The Intermediate Stages of Death


Winged Footprints


Blair and the Koran


Salt Ground and Spikenard


Pale Circles in Walls


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While the Note Lasts





Footprints on the Ceiling


I Am the Zoom


Karaman


Khalili’s Troops


And I Have Mine


The Scheme of Generation


The Source of the Kabul River


Taliban


Toes


Marble


Epilogue


Acknowledgments