num_pages: 326
description: Rory Stewart's moving, sparsely poetic account of his walk across Afghanistan in January 2002 was immediately hailed as a classic. Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, at the time Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion, Travelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible mountainous route once taken by the Mogul Emperor Babur the Great, Stewart was nearly defeated by the extreme, hostile conditions. Only with the help of an unexpected companion and the generosity of the people he met on the way did he survive to report back with unique insight on a region closed to the world by twenty-four years of war.Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Award and the Spirit of Scotland Award and shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize.
language: English
title: The Places in Between
titlecomplete: The Places in Between
genres: Biography, War, Adventure, Politics, Asia, Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 16907
places: Afghanistan
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize
publisher: Pan MacMillan