The Places In Between: A vivid account of a death-defying walk across war-torn Afghanistan (Paperback)

'This is traveling at its hardest and travel-writing at its best' - David Gilmour

'With a deft, at time poetic vividness, he describes an awesome landscape, scarred by a present and a past of violence and death . . . His encounters with Afghans are tragic, touching and terrifying' - The Daily Telegraph

'[Stewart] must have balls of steel, but he writes like and angel all the same' - Giles Foden

'This evocative book feels like a long lost relic of the great age of exploration' - The Guardian

'An astonishing achievement: a unique journey of great courage' - Colin Thubron

'Wise, funny and marvelously humane' - Michael Ignatieff

'An insight into the country that few could match' - The New Statesman

'Thank goodness for brave people doing crazy things and for a writer in the tradition of Thesiger and Thubron' - The Spectator