Layla after a hard day’s drive—photo by William E Evans ©, 2020
Another Medium story—about Layla the husky
Evans’ Rag
Vol 3 Issue 21
Cover image of The Places in Between by Rory Stewart, 2005 Picador paperback edition, uploaded 2019
Last week on the Outer Banks and away from the world, I was rereading Rory Stewart’s The Places in Between, thinking about his story, thinking about the announced withdrawal of Western coalition troops from Afghanistan.
Stewart’s an interesting person. He’s been compared to D. H. Lawrence, another Brit with wanderlust who was drawn to a culture foreign to his own.
In addition to the British Empire, that small island contributed a number of blokes interested in traveling the globe. Stewart claims his grasp of the Dari dialect of Farsi wasn’t too strong, but it carried him, along with stout legs and his dang (not what you’re thinking), the whole way across Iran, Pakistan, and finally as told in this book, Afghanistan.
One person’s need to know about the world is another’s eccentricity, and you know what is said about mad dogs and Englishmen—except Stewart’s from Scotland.