{"product_id":"the-prince-of-the-marshes-and-other-occupational-hazards-of-a-year-in-iraq-9780156032797","title":"The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStewart, Rory:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - RORY STEWART is the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Places in Between\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Prince of the Marshes.\u003c\/i\u003e A former director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy and Ryan Professor of Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services in Iraq. He is the Conservative member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border, a constituency in Northern Cumbria, where he lives with his wife.","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50724933271826,"sku":"9780156032797","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8bb7db4f-ea4d-4c0a-8b0f-f16f73e9c892.jpg?v=1734814570","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-prince-of-the-marshes-and-other-occupational-hazards-of-a-year-in-iraq-9780156032797","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}