An Afghan Journey
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An Afghan Journey
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Author : Roger Willemsen
language : en
Publisher: Haus Pub.
Release Date : 2007
An Afghan Journey written by Roger Willemsen and has been published by Haus Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Photography categories.
An adventurous journey in an awakening country
All The Roads Are Open
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Author : Annemarie Schwarzenbach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-30
All The Roads Are Open written by Annemarie Schwarzenbach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
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Author : Annemarie Schwarzenbach
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
All The Roads Are Open written by Annemarie Schwarzenbach and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
The Lightless Sky
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Author : Gulwali Passarlay
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
Release Date : 2015-10-15
The Lightless Sky written by Gulwali Passarlay and has been published by Atlantic Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The boy who fled Afghanistan and endured a terrifying journey in the hands of people smugglers is now a young man intent on changing the world. His story is a deeply harrowing and incredibly inspiring tale of our times. 'To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise what was it all for?' Gulwali Passarlay was sent away from Afghanistan at the age of twelve, after his father was killed in a gun battle with the US Army. Smuggled into Iran, Gulwali began a twelvemonth odyssey across Europe, spending time in prisons, suffering hunger, making a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean in a tiny boat, and enduring a desolate month in the camp at Calais. Somehow he survived, and made it to Britain, no longer an innocent child but still a young boy alone. In Britain he was fostered, sent to a good school, won a place at a top university, and was chosen to carry the Olympic torch in 2012. Gulwali wants to tell his story - to bring to life the plight of the thousands of men, women and children who are making this perilous journey every day. One boy's experience is the central story of our times. This memoir celebrates the triumph of courage and determination over adversity.
Journey To Find Home
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Author : Mina Ehsan Leghari
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-20
Journey To Find Home written by Mina Ehsan Leghari and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-20 with categories.
Under A Sickle Moon
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Author : Peregrine Hodson
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2002-08-08
Under A Sickle Moon written by Peregrine Hodson and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1984 journalist Peregrine Hodson crossed the Pakistan border into Afghanistan with rebel mujahedin smuggling arms and ammunition, beginning a thousand-mile journey through the war-torn nation. Fluent in Farsi, he was able to observe the war with stunning intimacy and eloquently capture the essence of the Afghan people and their culture. As the travelers survived bombings by Soviet aircraft, an ambush by a rival faction, and becoming swept up in a major offensive, Hodson would come to gain a unique perspective on their hopes for peace and religious devotion. Bringing together travel writing, war reportage, and history, this is a richly rendered portrait of a complex people. "Gripping and moving ... [a] powerful account of a war that has often been described as 'forgotten.'" -- Gail Pool, The Christian Science Monitor "Will long remain the most vivid account of a strange and horrible wrong." -- Ahmed Rashid, The Independent (London) "Vivid and intriguing." -- Jonathan Kirsch, -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
The Lightless Sky
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Author : Gulwali Passarlay
language : en
Publisher: HarperOne
Release Date : 2016-01-05
The Lightless Sky written by Gulwali Passarlay and has been published by HarperOne this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening memoir of fortitude and survival—of a twelve-year-old boy’s traumatic flight from Afghanistan to the West—that puts a face to one of the most shocking and devastating humanitarian crises of our time. “To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise what was it all for?” In 2006, after his father was killed, Gulwali Passarlay was caught between the Taliban who wanted to recruit him, and the Americans who wanted to use him. To protect her son, Gulwali’s mother sent him away. The search for safety would lead the twelve-year-old across eight countries, from the mountains of eastern Afghanistan through Iran and Europe to Britain. Over the course of twelve harrowing months, Gulwali endured imprisonment, hunger, cruelty, brutality, loneliness, and terror—and nearly drowned crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Eventually granted asylum in England, Gulwali was sent to a good school, learned English, won a place at a top university, and was chosen to help carry the Olympic Torch in the 2012 London Games. In The Lightless Sky, Gulwali recalls his remarkable experience and offers a firsthand look at one of the most pressing issues of our time: the modern refugee crisis—the worst displacement of millions of men, women, and children in generations. Few, like Gulwali, make it to a country that offers the chance of freedom and opportunity. A celebration of courage and determination, The Lightless Sky is a poignant account of an exceptional human being who is today an ardent advocate of democracy—and a reminder of our responsibilities to those caught in terrifying and often deadly circumstances beyond their control.
In The Footsteps Of Lions
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Author : Taj M. Ayubi
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Release Date : 2014-05
In The Footsteps Of Lions written by Taj M. Ayubi and has been published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05 with categories.
""In the Footsteps of Lions"" is a true story of the courage, dedication, and sacrifice of an Afghan household suffering, execution, poisoning, and displacement for the cause of freedom and democracy spanning over a century and a half. Taj Ayubi, the author, the Scion of the Household of Yehya Khan, recounts his fights with gangs, escaping arrest by communists, witnessing the fall of the Shah of Iran, the assassination of his father, and his miraculous escape from being kidnapped by bandits. The memoirs relate the sweet memories of his childhood, the arduous trip across the Baluchistan desert on a train ride shared with cutthroat smugglers, struggling with censorship as a journalist in Iran, and fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan during the cold war. In his latest daring move, Taj resigned his post as Minister Counselor to Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in protest to his boss's indifference to the rampant corruption in the government and for failing to appreciate the existential importance to the stabilization of Afghanistan of a military and security pact with the United States.
An Afghan Immigrant
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Author : Ahmad Ansari
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-06-02
An Afghan Immigrant written by Ahmad Ansari and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-02 with categories.
This memoir explores relevant issues of international importance, especially now with the world in turmoil and the United States in a position to help find solutions to reduce it. The story is based on events in the life of Ahmad Ansari, an Afghan teenager during the 1970s when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. It is a tale of a young boy badly injured during a rocket attack on his house and how he has faced life's challenges since then. He graduated as the valedictorian of his French high school in Kabul and earned a French government scholarship that he almost lost because the communist government at the time considered him "unpatriotic." With the help of his parents, he managed to leave Afghanistan and go to France to pursue his education. After earning a doctorate degree in engineering, he immigrated to the United States to join his refugee family who had escaped political persecution and war in his homeland. Through his life story, Ahmad shows how unrealistic foreign policies and unfounded idealism of powerful countries can lead to global disasters that can impact us all. Readers will understand the role the United States played to support the Afghan Mujahedeen and foreign fighters, including Osama Bin Laden and his followers, to defeat the Soviets. It also clearly shows how the lack of a coherent and well-thought-out post-war foreign policy by the United States, by abandoning Afghanistan after succeeding in giving the Soviets their own "Vietnam," enabled an environment for Regional Powers such as Pakistan and Iran to ignite and expand a civil war in Afghanistan. Pakistan with the creation of the Taliban movement, wanting to control Afghanistan, did not realize the consequences of its action and the danger it created for the entire world. The Taliban in Afghanistan played a major role in allowing Osama Bin Laden to become the de facto leader of that country. Emboldened by the defeat of a Superpower (The Soviet Union), Osama Bin Laden found a base to start terrorizing the United States and the West from there. The author points out how subsequent tragedies and wars could have been avoided if, after getting involved in the Afghan conflict and playing a crucial role in defeating the Soviet Union, the United States had not abandoned Afghanistan.
A Journey Through Afghanistan
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Author : David Chaffetz
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2001
A Journey Through Afghanistan written by David Chaffetz and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Shortly before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, David Chaffetz and a fellow American student slipped from the protection of Western culture and immersed themselves in the customs, fears, and hopes of the Afghan people, setting out on horseback through the mountains and into a lonely, hermetic world of nomads and isolated villages. Chaffetz's vivid, honest, and often poignant account of their experience reveals a great deal about the people of Afghanistan-and Willard Wood, his traveling companion, contributes a foreword considering the experience of the Afghan people in the new light of autumn, 2001.