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All the roads are open :

Author (نویسنده/ناشر):

Schwarzenbach, Annemarie, 1908-1942.

Second Author (نویسنده/ناشر دوم):

Cole, Isabel Fargo,

Second Author (نویسنده/ناشر دوم):

Perret, Roger,

Catalog Source (منبع کتلاگ):

ACKU

Statement of responsibility:

Annemarie Schwarzenbach ; translated and introduced by Isabel Fargo Cole ; with an afterword by Roger Perret.

Publication/Distribution (Imprint):

London ; New York : Seagull, 2011.

Physical Description:

xviii, 140 pages ; 21 cm.

Language:

English

ISBN:

9780857420152

Subjects--Personal Names:

,Schwarzenbach, Annemarie, 1908-1942 -- Travel -- Afghanistan.

Subjects--Personal Names:

,Maillart, Ella, 1903-1997 -- Travel -- Afghanistan.

Subjects--Topical Terms:

Travelers' writings, Swiss (German).

Subjects--Geographic Terms:

,Afghanistan -- Description and travel.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:

,Middle East -- Description and travel.

LC Class. No:

DS352. / S393 2011

Source of Classification:

Library of Congress Classification / Monograph

Accession No:

3ACKU000358696

General Note:

Translated from the German.

General Note:

Abstract: "In June 1939, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. This 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 [the book] is one of the most important episodes of Schwarzenbach's turbulent life. Her incisive, lyrical essays offer a unique glimpse of an Aghanistan already touched by the 'fateful laws knows 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"—back cover.