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I had been walking one afternoon in Scotland and thought: Why don't I just keep going? There was, I said, a magic in leaving a line of footprints stretching across Asia.

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In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.

Rory Stewart

Rory Stewart

Rory Stewart

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Born: January 3, 1973 (age 52)

Bio: Roderick James Nugent 'Rory' Stewart is a British academic, author, diplomat, documentary maker and Conservative politician currently serving as a Minister of State at the Department for International Development.

Known for:

The Places in Between (2004)
The Prince of the Marshes (2006)
Can Intervention Work? (2011)
Occupational Hazards (2006)

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