The prince of the marshes : and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq

Rory Stewart

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. <br>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.<br>

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書名 The prince of the marshes : and other occupational hazards of a year in Iraq
著作者等 Stewart Rory
出版元 Harcourt
刊行年月 c2006
ページ数 xviii, 396 p., [8] p. of plates
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780151012350
NCID BA77905511
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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