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To live or to perish forever : two tumultuous years in Pakistan / Nicholas Schmidle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidle, Nicholas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schmidle, Nicholas.
- Travel.
- Pakistan--Politics and government--1988-1999.
- Pakistan.
- Politics and government.
- Pakistan--Description and travel.
- Schmidle, Nicholas--Travel--Pakistan.
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2009.
- Summary:
- Freelance jopurnalist Nicholas Schmidle takes readers to Pakistan's rioting streets, to Taliban camps in the North-West Frontier Province, and on many surprising adventures as he provides a contemporary history of this country long riven by internal conflict. With the intimacy and good humor available only to the most fearless and open-eyed reporters, Schmidle narrates the most turbulent period of Pakistan's recent history, a time when President Pervez Musharraf lost his power and the Taliban found theirs, and when Americans began to realize that Pakistan's fate is inextricably linked with our own. Schmidle entered Pakistan in February 2006, befriended a radical cleric (who became an enemy of the state and was killed), came to crave the smell of tear gas (because it assured him that he was sufficiently close to the action), was deported by the Pakistani authorities, managed to get back into the country, and was chased out a second time.--From publisher description.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780805089387
- 0805089381
- OCLC:
- 270231872
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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