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The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
By Aikins, Matthieu
- ISBN
- 9780063058583
- Publisher
- Harper
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Starred Review on January 1, 2022 | Social Sciences
Aikins, an award-winning Canadian journalist, started reporting from Afghanistan and the Middle East in 2008. Eight years later, he accompanied his Afghan friend, translator, and colleague Omar on a dangerous overland journey to seek asylum in Europe. Aikins could pass as Afghani, and together the two endured long bus rides, scrambles on foot over borders, untrustworthy smugglers, brutal police, unstable small boats, and overcrowded miserable refugee camps in orde...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
