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crm_ 's review for:
The Places in Between
by Rory Stewart
A peek into the world of rural Afghanistan (which is a world so unlike the one I which I live) circa 2002. The life of the people the author interacted with is so foreign, so ancient, confounding and ultimately, so unknowable to this 21st century American. I value gaining a (small and fleeting) glimpse of the represented cultures which manifest these divergent perspectives.
It appears that the author is fortunate to have survived walking these treacherous roads, a risk well beyond reasonable for most of us. Yet despite multiple well informed warnings not to proceed alone, in the winter, despite land mines, wolves, Taliban sympathizers, militias, robbers and despots, he walked on. Charm, wit, arrogance and the undeserved good will of his fellow humans allowed him to someone beat the odds, and he arrived unscathed in Kabul.
It appears that the author is fortunate to have survived walking these treacherous roads, a risk well beyond reasonable for most of us. Yet despite multiple well informed warnings not to proceed alone, in the winter, despite land mines, wolves, Taliban sympathizers, militias, robbers and despots, he walked on. Charm, wit, arrogance and the undeserved good will of his fellow humans allowed him to someone beat the odds, and he arrived unscathed in Kabul.