'As a work of descripton and evocation The Market of Seleukia]
is wonderful ... showing us the enthralling interplay of politics,
avarice, hate, national pride, and religious fanaticism in that
part of the globe.' "The New Yorker"
The Market of Seleukia is a portrait of the Middle East at the
catalytic moment of the Suez Crisis. Jan Morris covers the vast,
colourful and dramatic ground of Egypt and Sudan; Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan; the Arabian Peninsula; Iraq and Iran. With superb
liveliness and lucidity, she traces the complicated and shifting
patterns in this most tangled of webs: the Anglo-American oil war;
the American Soviet struggle for dominance; the explosive impact of
Nasser's nationalism; irrigation and reclamation; Islam;
Israel.
But Market of Seleukia is much more than political reporting:
with wit, style and feeling, it captures the very texture of the
Middle East. It is brilliantly observed and magnificently written,
a book of major importance for today.
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