List Price: $11.00Amazon.com's Price: $8.80 You Save: $2.20 (20%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Kindle Edition
Format: Kindle Book
Label: Houghton Mifflin
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: November 16, 2007
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Sales Rank: 92247
Studio: Houghton Mifflin
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war.
The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart's year. As a participant he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, it amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.
|
|
Football Tickets www.ticketsolutions.com - ticket solutions has your nfl football tickets - online orders guaranteed.
|
|
|
Eyewear & Sunglass DisplaysFramedisplays.com offers eyewear and optical frame displays for private consumers as well as retail stores, opticians and other places selling eyewear and sunglasses. Choose among our acrylic displays, display rods, designer frame displays and more. |
|
