
An Unexpected Light
Travels in Afghanistan
Jason Elliot(Author)
Picador (Publisher)
Published on 20. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-0-330-37162-9 (ISBN)
Description
An Unexpected Light, Travels in Afghanistan is widely acknowledged as the most influential contemporary work of Afghanistan. Written on the eve of 9/11, at the height of Afghanistan's isolation from the world, Jason Elliot's uncannily prescient account of his winter journey through the country torn by civil war is as pertinent today as it was then.
Winner of the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award
The New York Times bestseller recounts the author's daring and passionate investigation into an extraordinary culture, first as a clandestine guest of the mujaheddin during the Soviet occupation, and ten years later during the Taliban advance on the besieged capital, Kabul.
This edition of An Unexpected Light is illustrated with the author's photographs and celebrates a classic work of travel literature.
'Jason Elliot is that rare traveller who surrenders himself to people and places and this tale is a many-layered reconstruction of his experience . . . I am sure this book will soon be among the classics of travel' - Doris Lessing
'An Unexpected Light is often unexpectedly funny and constantly perceptive, but it is also profound' - New York Times
Winner of the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award
The New York Times bestseller recounts the author's daring and passionate investigation into an extraordinary culture, first as a clandestine guest of the mujaheddin during the Soviet occupation, and ten years later during the Taliban advance on the besieged capital, Kabul.
This edition of An Unexpected Light is illustrated with the author's photographs and celebrates a classic work of travel literature.
'Jason Elliot is that rare traveller who surrenders himself to people and places and this tale is a many-layered reconstruction of his experience . . . I am sure this book will soon be among the classics of travel' - Doris Lessing
'An Unexpected Light is often unexpectedly funny and constantly perceptive, but it is also profound' - New York Times
Reviews / Votes
'What raises the book to the level of a classic is its intensely personal meditation on the magic of unplanned adventure, of the pain and pleasure of pushing into the unknown. The whole book, like Elliot's travels themselves, operated on this heightened level. * The Times * Jason Elliot is that rare traveller who surrenders himself to people and places and this tale is a many-layered reconstruction of his experience . . . I am sure this book will soon be among the classics of travel' -- Doris Lessing 'An Unexpected Light is often unexpectedly funny and constantly perceptive, but it is also profound' * New York Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-330-37162-9 (9780330371629)
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E-Book
05/2011
Picador
€13.49
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Person
Jason Elliot lives in London. His is the author of An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan and Mirrors of the Unseen: Journeys in Iran.