Matura – draft – środki językowe 2

1. Rory Stewart received this simple warning from and Afghan security service officer who questioned him about his travel plans. It was January 2002 and Stewart, ........ was British, intended to walk across Afghanistan. He could speak Persian and had some knowledge of Muslim customs. The planned trek was sort of a much longer journey, a solo walk across Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal.

2. Stewart set ........... despite the warning. In thirty-two days he crossed the country from Herat to Kabul,

3. covering over seven hundred kilometres, entirely on............

4. He walked over snow-covered mountains and through villages.............. no European had seen before.

5. People invited him to stay in their homes and share their meals. He appreciated their hospitality all the more, knowing that to some of them he represented a culture they hated. Somewhere along the way Stewart adopted a huge dog he named Babur, a faithful travelling.......................that he helped him to complete the journey. After returning home, Stewart wrote a book about his walk through Afghanistan, "The Places in Between".