Rory Stewart

I recently read a book by Rory Stewart, former British Diplomat, who walked across Afghanistan shortly after the fall of the Taliban. The book was amazing, not only for its scope and the context of war torn Afghanistan, but for an engaging style of prose that can be hard to come by in 1st person travel narratives. I found his writing similar to that of Bruce Chatwin, who I also enjoy for the same reasons. Stewart actually gets involved in the lives of the people he meets, which seems a rarity in journalistic writing.


What further sets Mr. Stewart apart is his apparent bravery. After his sojourn in a noticably touchy Afghanistan he took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad, where there is another "little" conflict, and asked for a job, which lead to his next book, which I can't wait to read.