{"product_id":"baghdad-without-a-map-and-other-misadventures-in-arabia-isbn-9780452267459","title":"Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world’s most combustible region.”—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePulitzer 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCareening 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.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eBaghdad without a Map and other Misadventures in Arabia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world’s most combustible region.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As a document of the cultural impasse that brought on the war, this is unsurpassed.”—\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“High-spirited and entertaining.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A timely and incisive insider’s description of the mysterious Arab World...Tony Horwitz is an ideal guide for American Reader.”—\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTony Horwitz\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal.\u003c\/i\u003e Returning to the U.S., he won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and wrote for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker.\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eConfederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes, Baghdad Without a Map \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Voyage Long and Strange\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302390419685,"sku":"NP9780452267459","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452267459.jpg?v=1767722117","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/baghdad-without-a-map-and-other-misadventures-in-arabia-isbn-9780452267459","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}