All the Roads Are Open
All the Roads Are Open In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The Afghan journey documented in All the Roads Are…
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All the Roads Are Open
In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The Afghan journey documented in All the Roads Are Open is one of the most important episodes of Schwarzenbach's turbulent life. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what they considered to be Western neuroses.
In her writings, Schwarzenbach conjures up the desolate beauty of landscapes both internal and external, reflecting on the longings and loneliness of travel as well as its grace. Her incisive, lyrical essays offer a unique glimpse of an Afghanistan already touched by the "fateful laws known as progress," a remote yet "sensitive nerve centre of world politics" caught amid great powers in upheaval. Maillart's account of their trip, The Cruel Way, stands as a
All the Roads Are Open
All Roads Home
All the Devils Are Here
All the Children Are Home
Open All Night
Ceduľa We Are Open
Still Open All Hours
All Are Welcome
The Girls Are All So Nice Here