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Reading is one of our passion and books they have read a lot, but together we have chosen to read "The Way cruel" by Ella Maillart. Why? Needless to say: this is the tale of a long and amazing that two friends, the writers and travelers Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Ella Maillart, attend summer of 1939 from Europe by car to Kabul, crossing the valley of Bamiyan, where he also visited the two giant statues of Buddha carved into the rock walls, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
My Friend is upset at times, but I have been abducted by way of writing of Maillart. The cruel way is not the first book I read of the Geneva-based writer, but every time I let myself be carried away by its complex and detailed descriptions, I remain disarmed by his courage, his resourcefulness and through his stories penetrate the very essence of travel. She puts to the test, traveling discovers parts of herself that might not otherwise know, suffering from hunger and thirst, risking diseases, through the silence of the deserts and braving the unknown. His way of life and approach to travel, make solidarity with the people he meets so reminds me of another great writer, which I have strong emotions, Ryszard Kapuscinsky. He, too, as you now no longer there. And so I happen to read books read, to find phrases that take on new meaning after a few years to get back in touch with this woman who loved to write, he did it to have the resources to enable it each time leaving for remote destinations.
Some time ago I read about two friends, Simone and Elisa Bozzarelli Rocco, who wanted to take exactly the same journey of the two writers and I call, should they come across this blog, and tell them to tell me all the more unusual travel experience.
(Via Cruel, two women traveling from Europe to Kabul by Ella Maillart, EDT 1995)
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