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The Cruel Way Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford 1939 1st Edition by Ella K Maillart, Jessa Crispin ISBN 022603304X 9780226033044

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Author(s): Ella K. Maillart, Jessa Crispin
ISBN(s): 9780226033044, 022603304X
Edition: Reprint
File Details: PDF, 17.05 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 022603304X

ISBN 13: 9780226033044 

Author: Ella K. Maillart, Jessa Crispin

In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women to travel alone on Afghanistan’s Northern Road, Maillart and Schwarzenbach had a rare glimpse of life in Iran and Afghanistan at a time when their borders were rarely crossed by Westerners. As the two flash across Europe and the Near East in a streak of élan and daring, Maillart writes of comical mishaps, breathtaking landscapes, vitriolic religious clashes, and the ingenuity with which the women navigated what was often a dangerous journey. In beautiful, clear-eyed prose, The Cruel Way shows Maillart’s great ability to explore and experience other cultures in writing both lyrical and deeply empathetic.
While the core of the book is the journey itself and their interactions with people oppressed by political conflict and poverty, towards the end of the trip the women’s increasingly troubled relationship takes center stage. By then the glamorous, androgynous Schwarzenbach, whose own account of the trip can be found in All the Roads Are Open, is fighting a losing battle with her own drug addiction, and Maillart’s frustrated attempts to cure her show the profound depth of their relationship.
Complete with thirteen of Maillart’s own photographs from the journey, The Cruel Way is a classic of travel writing, and its protagonists are as gripping and fearless as any in literature.

Table of contents:

1. The Idea
2. The Start
3. Italy
4. Yugoslavia
5. Sofia
6. Istanbul
7. Black Sea
8. Pontic Range
9. Bayazit
10. Azerbaijan
11. Roads
12. Nikpeh
13. Sultanieh
14. Teheran
15. Gumbad-I-Kabus
16. Khorassan
17. Meshed
18. Abbas Abad
19. The Border
20. Herat
21. Bala Murghau
22. Shibargan
23. Turkestan
24. Pol-I-Khumri
25. Do-Au
26. Bamian
27. Band-I-Amir
28. Begram
29. Kabul
30. Mandu
Envoi
Dates
Bibliography
Heights and Distances
Index

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