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245			_aOn the Road to Kandahar: _bTravels through conflict in the Islamic World _cJason Burke
260			_aEngland _bAllen Lane _c2006
300			_a291 pages _bHB
500			_aIn the summer of 1991 Jason Burke set off to join Kurdish guerillas fighting in Iraq. It turned out to be the start of a remarkable journey that would take him from the sands of the Sahara to the highest peaks of the Himalayas, seeing at first hand life and death, war and peace, bigotry and tolerance, hate and friendship throughout the 'Islamic World'. On the Road to Kandahar is the honest, fascinating story of how he has travelled in search of answers to perhaps the most important issues of our time: how should we understand Islam, and Islamic radicalism? His journey is intellectual and personal; a journey of human encounters with hundreds of people, ranging from destitute refugees to senior government ministers, from American snipers to hardened 'mujahideen'. It is a voyage into history and into the powerful ideas, ideologies and myths that have so often determined, for good or ill, the interaction of the West and the world of Islam. It is also a journey through the reality of the modern media and the reality of modern war. Yet Burke's conclusions are fundamentally optimistic. Though the strategy pursued in 'the War on Terror' has often been tragically flawed, the weapon that will prevail against militancy, Burke finds, is the essential moderation, sense and basic humanity of those he meets. On the Road to Kandahar is vivid and enjoyable, but it is also important. It allows us to see, in all its variety and contradiction, a broad swathe of the planet that we urgently need to understand better. £20.00
500			_aPublication details: 958.1 shamuston - Desta travel BKSK MEMILLA 397 DEPARTMENT OF POXITION SCIE ) 1 Buake, Jehn-Travel-17ha nistan ALLEN LANE BROTHER Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England Pengum Group (USA) Inc. 375 Huchon Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), cur Airborne and Rosedale Roadi, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL., England www.penguin.com First published 2006 1 Copyright © Jason Burke, 2006 The moral right of the author has been asserted All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book Set in Monotype Bembo Typeset by Rowland Phototypesetting Ltd. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Printed in Great liritain by Clays Ltd. St Ives ple A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library HARDBACK ISBN-13: 978-0-713-99896-2 ISBN-10: 0-713-99896-2 TRADE PAPERBACK ISBN-13:978-0-713-99947-1 ISBN-100-713-79947-0
650			_aAfghanistan description and travel
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