Freedom's Edge: A true story of a young woman photographer's Journey and Imprisonment in Afghanistan. (Abridged)

"AFGHANISTAN: ...a landlocked country enclosed by a stupendously wild geography, centrally positioned between the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, Central Asia, and the Far East... Coined the 'roundabout civilization' Afghanistan has been the centre of empires... and for the reception and diffusion of religious and artistic forms all over Asia; from ancient Mother Goddess cults of the Upper Palaeolithic through to Classical, Buddhist, Hindu, and the present Islamic period. It was here ...