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To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan - Softcover

Schmidle, Nicholas

 
9780805091496: To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0805091491 ISBN 13: 9780805091496
Verlag: St. Martin's Griffin, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

“A fascinating account of [Schmidle’s] years in Pakistan . . . The story of two Pakistans the author discovered: one beautiful and friendly, the other frightening and deadly.”—Booklist Nicholas Schmidle beat the Pakistani army into Taliban country. In October 2007, just weeks before thousands of troops, backed by helicopters and artillery fire, marched into the Swat valley to battle the gang of Talibs who had taken over the region, Schmidle rode into the town of Mingora on a public bus. He drove through Taliban-manned checkpoints and took a zipline into a militant camp. Schmidle had spent the previous two years traveling throughout Pakistan, living off a small fellowship which required only that he stay in the country, learn Urdu, and write about what he witnessed. Schmidle’s telling of his gripping adventures, aided by his own deep knowledge of Pakistan’s history, explains to readers the many reasons why Pakistan has grabbed the world’s headlines. To Live or to Perish Forever is an eye-opening and exciting read about this essential place.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nicholas Schmidle writes for the New Yorker and is the author of To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan. His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, Slate, the Washington Post, and many others. Schmidle has been a National Magazine Award finalist, a two-time Livingston Award finalist, and winner of a Kurt Schork Award. He is a former fellow at the Institute of Current World Affairs, the New America Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former resident at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. In 2017, Schmidle was a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University. He currently lives in London with his family.

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Verlag
St. Martin's Griffin
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0805091491
ISBN 13 
9780805091496
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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