The Wrestler
Rory Stewart tells the story of the Turquoise Mountain project, which he launched with local people to regenerate a poverty-stricken district in Kabul.
Ox Travels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers; this week we'll be featuring five of these stories.
Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.
Rory Stewart tells the story of the Turquoise Mountain project which he launched with local people to regenerate a poverty-stricken district in Kabul.
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