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Book Cover for: Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia, Tony Horwitz

Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

Tony Horwitz

"A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--The New York Times Book Review

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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Horwitz's 1991 classic account of his travels across the Middle East and through the Arabian Peninsula, now in eBook for the first time.

With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of the 1990s, to offer startling, honest close-ups of the Middle East. His quest for hot stories takes him from the tribal wilds of Yemen to the shell-pocked shores of Lebanon; from the sands of the Sudan to the souks of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Careening through fourteen countries, including the Sudan, Iraq, Israel, and Afghanistan, Horwitz travels light, packing a keen eye, a wicked sense of humor, and chutzpah in overwhelming measure. This wild and comic tale of misadventure reports on a fascinating world in which the ancient and the modern collide.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Plume Books
  • Publish Date: Jan 1st, 1992
  • Pages: 304
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.98in - 5.29in - 0.69in - 0.56lb
  • EAN: 9780452267459
  • Categories: • Essays & Travelogues• Middle East - General• Memoirs

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About the Author

Tony Horwitz was a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. As a foreign correspondent, he covered wars and conflict in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe, mainly for the Wall Street Journal. Returning to the U.S., he won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and wrote for the New Yorker. He was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and president of the Society of American Historians. His books include the national bestsellers Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes, Baghdad Without a Map and A Voyage Long and Strange.

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Praise for this book

Praise for Baghdad without a Map and other Misadventures in Arabia

"A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--The New York Times Book Review

"As a document of the cultural impasse that brought on the war, this is unsurpassed."--Village Voice

"High-spirited and entertaining."--The New Yorker

"A timely and incisive insider's description of the mysterious Arab World...Tony Horwitz is an ideal guide for American Reader."--Chicago Tribune