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The Prince of the Marshes (2006) (edit title/settings)

And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

by Rory Stewart (Author) (edit contributors)

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In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat, 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... read more

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On the three-hour drive north from Basra to take up my post in Maysan, I passed through the territory the Prince of the Marshes claimed to control.

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  1. Rory Stewart (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Harcourt
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Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0151012350
Page Count: 416

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