"In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable."

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Source : Rory Stewart (2009). “The Places In Between”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

Rory Stewart

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