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“I love travel books. this one is a little dry but interesting.”
Kay K wrote this review Wednesday, November 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Extraordinary. ”
Litsa M wrote this review Monday, October 26 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“This story put a human face on a culture I knew little about. ”
Amy M wrote this review Wednesday, October 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Interesting book. A bit amazing he didn't get himself killed. ”
Christine G wrote this review Wednesday, October 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Unbelievable! Such an interesting read.”
Book Rat wrote this review Sunday, October 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This is a travelogue that is rare nowadays. It captures the spirit of adventure and quiet beauty of travel back when there were still places unexplored. ”
Jehan wrote this review Monday, September 7 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Amazon Review:
Andrew Hughes-Onslow wrote this review Tuesday, August 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
This is traveling at its hardest and travel-writing at its best' - David Gilmour 'an astonishing achievement: a unique journey of great courage' - Colin Thubron 'The Places in Between goes straight into the highest echelons of travel literature' - Wanderlust 'a writer in the tradition of Thesiger and Thubron' - Spectator '[this] evocative book feels like a long lost relic of the great age of exploration' - Guardian 'a mature debut, and an intejavascript:{}lligent and illuminating introduction to this fascinating, unfortunate country.' - Telegraph '[Stewart] must have balls of steel, but he writes like an angel all the same.' - Conde Nast Traveller 'one of the most thrilling and informative books to have been written about that incredible country since Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana”“A great way to understand tribal culture. Rory Stewart now works to preserve Afganistan's artifacts.”
Jean A wrote this review Thursday, July 30 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Strange travels, lucky he is alive.”
VernDude wrote this review Sunday, June 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Ok - I have finsihed it and I like it even more - so I am adding this before my first review which is still at the end of the section. Spoiler Alert - read no more if you do not want to know what happens at the end - Mr. Stewart has a practiced ease with words and if I were not sure that others would have long found out I would be tempted to say he embellished his tale for dramatic effect. instead what I see is a practiced reporter/investigator with a poets soul. Like a true poet the words he sets down are deliberate even in the appearance of random carelessness. The book is full of metaphor, intended and perhaps, again like the poet, read in by others with another perspective. In the end Rory's companion, Babur the dog, dies. Loved, despite his grufness, loyal and loving despite his origins, in the end, the kindness of his western benefactors prooves too much, something he was illprepared for, and in the end, something that prooved one step too far. This book is a cautionary tale in the guise of an easy travelogue. Mr. Rory Stewart is either destined to be one of the great literary social voices of this young 21st century, or to be remembered as someone accidentally insightful beyond his realization. As if from the mouths of babes as it were. Though, I think the first description may be the path he is so earnestly walking.
Scott C wrote this review Sunday, July 5 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
original review - I'm still reading it and now wish I would have picked it up even sooner - nearly done and after spending some time in that country (though not as intimately) I appreciate Rory Stewart's experience A great read, easy, but with deep connotations if you bother to follow where his pen is pointing.”
