Walking the Precipice: Witness to the Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan

by Barbara Bick

Book Overview

An "enthralling" memoir of a woman who risked her life to help a people under siege and a country caught between freedom and oppression (Publishers Weekly--starred review).

In 1990, sixty-five-year-old activist and grandmother Barbara Bick traveled with a women's delegation to Afghanistan for what she thought would be her last great adventure. Instead, Bick forged deep friendships with her Afghan hosts--only to watch in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558615865
• ISBN13: 9781558615861
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"