All the roads are open
an Afghan journey ; 1939 - 1940 ; [The Swiss list]
Person: Schwarzenbach, Annemarie
serial: The Swiss list
Year: 2011
Language: English
Scope: 159 p.
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- 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 Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses. The Afghan journey documented in All the Roads Are Open is one of the most important episodes of Schwarzenbach's turbulent life. Her incisive, lyrical essays offer a unique glimpse of an Afghanistan already touched by the 'fateful laws known as progress', a remote yet 'sensitive nerve centre of world politics' 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. Maillart's account of their trip, The Cruel Way, stands as a classic of travel literature, and, now available for the first time in English, Schwarzenbach's memoir rounds out the story of the adventure.
Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-42) was a writer, journalist and photographer, who worked periodically as an archaeologist. She is the author of the poem 'Aus Tétouan, Der Krater der Tiere, Das Wunder des Baumes'.
Title Information
Title: All the roads are open
serial: The Swiss list
Person: Schwarzenbach, Annemarie
Translator: Cole, Isabel Fargo
Publisher : Seagull Books
ISBN: 9780857420497
Category: Non-Fiction & Guidebooks, Travel & Adventure, Tales of Adventure & Travelogues
File size: 4 MB
Format: PDF
Loan period: 21 days
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