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An Afghan Journey

Name: An Afghan Journey
Author: Roger Willemsen
ISBN: 9781905791033

by Roger Willemsen

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Overview

'I ask a nomad boy: why do you have a green spot on the bridge of your nose? So they can find me again', he replies. 'And where do you think I come from?' 'From China.'

'Hello. Minister, what's your matter?' another one asks me. And I say: 'No matter.' 'So what are you doing? 'Just visiting', I reply. He turns to his friend and shouts: 'Look, first tourist'. And of course, he was right. I thought: mine is the view of a first tourist.

Only a few months after a 25-year-long war ended in Afghanistan, Roger Willemsen accompanied a friend on her journey home: from Kabul to Kunduz, through the legendary steppe to the river Oxus, the boundary to Tadzhikistan. This is his journal of adventurous travels in an awakening country.

Synopsis

An adventurous journey in an awakening country

About the Author, Roger Willemsen

Born in 1955, Roger Willemsen has been an author, foreign correspondent, academic and critic, before becoming a television personality with his own show Willemsens Woche (Willemsen's Week) in 1991. Since then he has also worked as a documentary film-maker and producer.