All the Roads Are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach PAPERBACK 9780857428226

Name: All the Roads Are Open by Annemarie Schwarzenbach PAPERBACK 9780857428226
Brand: Seagull Books London Ltd

Seagull Books London Ltd

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\n\nAll the Roads Are Open \u2013 The Afghan Journey\nThe Afghan Journey\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked service;