Rory Stewart Quit British Foreign Office, Walked Across Asia
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.25.03 | 9:09 PM ET
Rory Stewart quit a promising career in international relations to walk across central and southern Asia. “I think when I set off, my motivation really was to try to put myself in the background and get a feeling, almost an anthropological feeling, of how it is in villages in very remote places, how they see the world, how people see Islam, for example,” he told Guy Dixon, who recently profiled Stewart for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper. Stewart chronicled his journey through Pakistan, India and Afghanistan—he’s thought by some to be the first tourist there after the fall of the Taliban—in articles for the London Review of Books and other publications. The stories were so well received, Stewart landed a book deal. “The Places In Between,” which covers his two-year walk, will be released later this year.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
