Nicolas Bouvier
Flawed Questions, Missed Alternatives, Rethinking Causes – lecture by Nazif Shahrani
Christian Bleuer on Ghosts of Alexander has provided some excellent material on AfPak – a lecture at ANU by Nazif Shahrani, which can be accessed here as an mp3.
He is talking about alternatives to the current war that were never considered, a Bonn agreement that was leading into the wrong direction looking for the wrong [...]
L’Usage de monde I – elections then and now
I am currently reading L’Usage de monde (The Way of the World in an English translation) by Nicolas Bouvier who travelled, accompanied by his friend Thierry Vernet by Fiat Topolino from Geneva to the Khyber Pass and on to India in 1953/54. I plan to give a lengthier account of the book as soon as [...]
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