All the Roads Are Open
The Afghan Journey
Distributed for Seagull Books
Translated and Introduced by Isabel Fargo Cole, with an Afterword by Roger Perret
- Contents
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A Note on the Text and Translation
Part One: Mount Ararat
Balkan Borders
Therapia
Trebizond: Farewell to the Sea
Mount Ararat
Part Two: The Steppe
The Steppe
The Prisoners
No Man’s Land: Between Persia and Afghanistan
Part Three: The Women of Kabul
Herat, 1 August 1939...
The Hind Kush Three Times
In the Garden of the Beautiful Girls of Qaisar
The Women of Kabul
Part Four: The Bank of the Oxus
The Neighbouring Village
The Bank of the Oxus
The Potters of Istalif
The Grip to Ghazni
Part Five: Two Women Alone in Afghanistan
Two Women Alone in Afghanistan
Chehel Sotun
Part Six: Onward to Peshawar...
Onward to Peshawar...
Aden, a Morning Vision
The Trip Down the Suez Canal
Text Sources
Afterword: ’My existence in the exile of distant adventure’
Roger Perret
History: Middle Eastern History
Literature and Literary Criticism: Germanic Languages
Travel and Tourism: Tourism and History
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