Afghanistan-remote, elusive, infamous since September 11, 2001 for most - is a land of wonder, beauty and contrasting strangeness for New Zealand writer Richard Loseby. This is the story of a journey that began in the mind of an eight-year-old boy obsessed with 'looking' for the Afghan' and ended with a perilous dash to safety across more than seven hundred kilometers of mountain and desert. Avoiding land mines and bullets, he spent months travelling through Iraq ...
