short-listed for The Guardian First Book Award and the John Llewlyn Rhys Prize. The New York Times named it one of the top-ten books of 2006, a distinction the newspaper rarely gives to travel books. It was a New York Times bestseller for thirteen weeks and has been translated into nine languages. Publication The book was first published as a hardcover by Picador in the UK on 4 June 2004 (). A second revised edition was published as a paperback in the UK on 1 April 2005 (). On 8 May 2006, a further revised American paperback edition was published by Harvest Books (). An audio recording was made in 2006 narrated by Rory Stewart while he was in Kabul and published by Recorded Books (), based on the Harvest Books edition. Adaptation The Places in Between was dramatised by writer Benjamin Yeoh in a 45-minute radio play of the same name directed by Steven Canny, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play on 15 February 2007. The play was the radio pick of the day in both The Guardian and The Times. References External links Stewart's webpage about the book Reviews "A Walk Across Afghanistan", by Tom Bissell in The New York Times Book Review. 11 June 2006. 2004 non-fiction books British travel books Books about Afghanistan Hiking books