Synopsis
Winner of the RSL Ondaatje Prize
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
‘A striding, glorious book . . . A flat-out masterpiece’ The New York Times Book Review
Caught between hostile nations, warring factions and competing ideologies, Afghanistan was in turmoil following the US invasion. Travelling entirely on foot and following the inaccessible mountainous route once taken by the Mughal emperor Babur...
Details
09 May 2024400 pages
9781035052189Imprint: Picador
Reviews
This is traveling at its hardest and travel-writing at its bestDavid Gilmour
With a deft, at time poetic vividness, he describes an awesome landscape, scarred by a present and a past of violence and death . . . His encounters with Afghans are tragic, touching and terrifyingDaily Telegraph
[Stewart] must have balls of steel, but he writes like and angel all the sameGiles Foden
This evocative book feels like a long lost relic of the great age of explorationGuardian
