An account of Scottish writer and politician Rory Stewart's walk across Afghanistan shortly after the fall of the Taliban.
I found this book fascinating because of its detailed description of places in Afghanistan from a foreigner's perspective. Afghanistan's mountainous interior is one of the least accessible areas that is nevertheless home to a large concentration of people. These people largely are isolated from the world beyond them, and the world is isolated to them. Their stories are fascinating, and Stewart's travel on foot, as a complete stranger, through the lands of the Tajiks, Aimaqs, Hazaras, and Pashtuns was an arduous and unusual undertaking that was able to impart me with a partial but rich impression of those places and cultures.