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The Prince of the Marshes
Rory Stewart
And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
Harcourt
August 2006
On Sale: July 26, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 0151012350
EAN: 9780151012350
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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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