{"product_id":"all-the-roads-are-open-the-afghan-journey-paperback-1","title":"All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnnemarie Schwarzenbach\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIsabel Fargo Cole\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eAll the Roads Are Open\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Cruel Way\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003ePraise for the German Edition\u003c\/i\u003e \"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eSüddeutsche Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnnemarie Schwarzenbach \u003c\/b\u003e(1908-42)\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ewas a writer, journalist, and photographer who worked periodically as an archaeologist. She is the author of the poem \u003ci\u003eAus Tétouan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Der Krater der Tiere\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Das Wunder des Baumes\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eIsabel Fargo Cole\u003c\/b\u003e is a US-born, Berlin-based writer and translator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 124\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48707080618233,"sku":"9780857428226","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/6MycAWzITQ9780857428226_39ce0f08-b8ef-4a34-97f3-a1b54849fe4e.webp?v=1784891468","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/all-the-roads-are-open-the-afghan-journey-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}