{"product_id":"baghdad-without-a-map-and-other-misadventures-in-arabia-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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Plume Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514179424530,"sku":"9780452267459","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6d4701d5-6c50-4443-9ae8-ad633f971fcc.jpg?v=1730974825","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/baghdad-without-a-map-and-other-misadventures-in-arabia-9780452267459","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}