About the Book

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.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 405 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Harvest Books

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-10: 0156032791

Publication Date: Apr. 1st, 2007

ISBN-13: 9780156032797

Dimensions: 5.34 x 8.10 x 0.82 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.04 lbs

• Categories: Political Biography & Political Autobiography General Middle Eastern