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Jan 01, 1992 | ISBN 9780452267459 Buy
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Jan 01, 1992 | ISBN 9780452267459
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“A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world’s most combustible region.”—The New York Times Book ReviewNATIONAL BESTSELLERPulitzer 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.
“A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world’s most combustible region.”—The New York Times Book ReviewNATIONAL BESTSELLERPulitzer 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 timeWith 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.Careering 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.
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 newspaper reporter he spent a decade overseas, mainly covering wars and conflict in the Middle East, Africa,… More about Tony Horwitz
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
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