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    "description": "In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains coverded in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving amid the remains of medieval civilizations. By night het slept on villagers\u2019 floors, shared their meals, and listened to theit stories of the recent and ancient past. Along the way Stewart met heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers. He was also adopted by an unexpected companion - a retired fighting mastiff he named Babur in honor of Afghanistan\u2019s first Mughal emperor, in whose footsteps the pair was following.\nThrough these en ounters - by turns touching, confounding, surprising, and funny - Stewart makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, and allegiance that shape life in the map\u2019s countles places in between.",
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