Schwarzenbach Annemarie - All The Roads Are Open The Afghan Journey - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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." - Suddeutsche Zeitung
Title: All The Roads Are Open The Afghan Journey
Author(s): Schwarzenbach Annemarie
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9780857428226
Pages: 124 Pages
Publication Date: 4/30/2021
Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature
Category: Travel Writing