{"product_id":"all-the-roads-are-open-annemarie-schwarzenbach-9780857428226","title":"All the Roads Are Open","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","brand":"Seagull Books London Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51348412334368,"sku":"9780857428226","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780857428226.jpg?v=1780708272","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/all-the-roads-are-open-annemarie-schwarzenbach-9780857428226","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}