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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. . .Along the way Stewart met heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers. . .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." |
