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Stewart, Rory

 
9780156032797: The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0156032791 ISBN 13 : 9780156032797
Editeur : Mariner Books, 2007

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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À propos de l'auteur

RORY STEWART is the best-selling author of The Places in Between and The Prince of the Marshes. A former director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy and Ryan Professor of Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services in Iraq. He is the Conservative member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border, a constituency in Northern Cumbria, where he lives with his wife.

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Éditeur
Mariner Books
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0156032791
ISBN 13 
9780156032797
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
448
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
HarperCollins Publishers Ireland
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780151012350: Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0151012350 ISBN 13 :  9780151012350
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006
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