Author: Annemarie Schwarzenbach
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ISBN: 9780857428226
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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. Praise for the German Edition "Above all, [Schwarzenbach'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."--Süddeutsche Zeitung
All the Roads Are Open
Author: Annemarie Schwarzenbach
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ISBN: 9780857428226
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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. Praise for the German Edition "Above all, [Schwarzenbach'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."--Süddeutsche Zeitung
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857428226
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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. Praise for the German Edition "Above all, [Schwarzenbach'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."--Süddeutsche Zeitung
Public Roads
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Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Category : Highway research
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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The Rural New-Yorker
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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The American Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Roads
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on roads
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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National Forest Roads for All Uses
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Category : Forest roads
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Category : Forest roads
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Motordom
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Parliamentary Debates
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Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
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Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
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Labor Laws of the State of Illinois
Author: Illinois. Laws, statutes, etc
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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All Roads Got Forks
Author: Marcus E. Cumbie
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477279032
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
"Grandmother says we're moving," Cephas told his friend, Pudge. "Can't be helped." That didn't mean the two boys had to like it. They had rambled the Sepulga River Swamp their entire lives. "You boys got to remember," the old woman told them. "All roads got forks." The hope that roads sometimes come together leads Pudge to record his memories. What had those boys cared that the nation was in the Great Depression and on a path that would lead to the calamity of a world war? Seventy-five years pass before Pudge travels back, looking for that crossroad, unsure of what he will find. The dirt roads are now unfamiliar, houses and farms are abandoned, and an old man sits on a porch. "Hello. I'm looking for a fella who used to live in these parts." Yes, he would be there.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477279032
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
"Grandmother says we're moving," Cephas told his friend, Pudge. "Can't be helped." That didn't mean the two boys had to like it. They had rambled the Sepulga River Swamp their entire lives. "You boys got to remember," the old woman told them. "All roads got forks." The hope that roads sometimes come together leads Pudge to record his memories. What had those boys cared that the nation was in the Great Depression and on a path that would lead to the calamity of a world war? Seventy-five years pass before Pudge travels back, looking for that crossroad, unsure of what he will find. The dirt roads are now unfamiliar, houses and farms are abandoned, and an old man sits on a porch. "Hello. I'm looking for a fella who used to live in these parts." Yes, he would be there.