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title: "The Places In Between: A solo 36-day trek through post-Taliban Afghanistan―snowbound villages, wary strangers, and a rescued mastiff named Babur"
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# The Places In Between: A solo 36-day trek through post-Taliban Afghanistan―snowbound villages, wary strangers, and a rescued mastiff named Babur

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A New York Times Bestseller "A striding, glorious book . . . A flat-out masterpiece . . . The Places in Between is, in very nearly every sense, too good to be true." — New York Times Book Review This account of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is “stupendous. . . an instant travel classic.” ( Entertainment Weekly ) 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 Afghanistan's first Mughal emperor, in whose footsteps the pair was following. 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.

## Technical Specifications

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| Best Sellers Rank | #169,326 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in Afghanistan Travel Guides #10 in General Middle East Travel Guides #21 in Pakistan History |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 4,411 Reviews |

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