Prince Of The Marshes, The
by Stewart, Rory
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0156032791
- ISBN 13
- 9780156032797
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Bellingham, Massachusetts, United States
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Synopsis
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.
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- Cozy Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 485871
- Title
- Prince Of The Marshes, The
- Author
- Stewart, Rory
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0156032791
- ISBN 13
- 9780156032797
- Publisher
- Harvest Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007-04-01
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