Rory Stewart: best books

Rory Stewart, author of the best-selling Afghanistan memoir The Places in Between, is director of Harvard University’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.He named his favorite travel books for The Week. One title on the list:River Town by Peter Hessler (HarperCollins, $15).A Peace Corps volunteer describes two years teaching in a Chinese city on the Yangtze. Hessler’s 2006 book is open to the