The Places in Between

Resumen

The Places in Between is a travel narrative by Scottish author Rory Stewart about his solo walk across north-central Afghanistan in 2002. Stewart started in Herat and ended in Kabul following the Hari River from west to east. Along the way he travels through some of the most rugged, isolated and poor parts of the country. Set at the same time as the American invasion and occupation of Afghanistan after the events set in motion by 9/11, Stewart made the walk in the middle of winter, adding additional hardship as he passed through the mountainous Ghor and Koh-i-Baba regions and its many snow-bound passes and villages.
The Places in Between has been critically applauded. It won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Scottish Arts Council prize and the Spirit of Scotland award in 2005 and was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the John Llewlyn Rhys prize. The New York Times Book Review named it one of the top-10 books of 2006, a distinction the NYT rarely gives to travel books.
The book was first published as a hardcover by Picador in the UK on 4 June 2004. A second revised edition was published as a paperback in the UK on 1 April 2005.