“…An ode to oral culture, it takes the listener from Belgium, thorugh Slovakia, and Turkey, to Syria, Kurdistan, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Tibet, China, and Vietnam.…”

“…On another path, in another period, Frei follows the footsteps of Xuanzang, the seventh-century Chinese monk famed for his sixteen-year spiritual quest along the Silk Road to India. Bamiyan was one of his stops. In Canada, Afghan writer and journalist Nelofer Pazira reflects on an old photograph of her father posing before the giant Buddhas. …”