Nicolas Bouvier
Byron – Chatwin – Stewart – Bouvier
William Dalrymple has written a thoughtful review of the recent publication of letters by Bruce Chatwin. Apparently he once wrote the foreword for Robert Byron’s Road to Oxania – in the newest edition Rory Stewart is doing that job.
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 [...]
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