All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey (The Swiss List)

All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey (The Swiss List)

In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistanâ€™s Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses.
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The Afghan journey documented in All the Roads Are Open is one of the most important episodes of Schwarzenbachâ€™s turbulent life. Her incisive, lyrical essays offer a unique glimpse of an Afghanistan already touched by the â€œfateful laws known as progress,â€ a remote yet â€œsensitive nerve centre of world politicsâ€ caught amid great powers in upheaval. In her writings, Schwarzenbach conjures up the desolate beauty of landscapes both internal and external, reflecting on the longings and loneliness of travel as well as its grace.
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Maillartâ€™s account of their trip, The Cruel Way, stands as a classic of travel literature, and, now available for the first time in English, Schwarzenbachâ€™s memoir rounds out the story of the adventure.
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Praise for the German Edition
Â â€œAbove all, [Schwarzenbachâ€™s] discovery of the Orient was a personal one. But the author never loses sight of the historical and social context. . . . She shows no trace of colonialist arrogance. In fact, the pieces also reflect the experience of crisis, the loss of confidence which, in that decade, seized the long-arrogant culture of the West.â€â€”SÃ¼ddeutsche Zeitung

Country	USA
Author	Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780857420152
Edition	1st Edition
ISBN	0857420151
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	Seagull Books
Manufacturer	Seagull Books
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	124
PublicationDate	2011-10-15
Publisher	Seagull Books
Studio	Seagull Books
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey (The Swiss List)

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