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Into Iraq (Hardcover)
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Into Iraq (Hardcover)
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List price R535
Loot Price R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
You Save R46 (9%)
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In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River
Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region
of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that
in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed. In
the journal he kept during his trip he describes the war-ravaged
city of Mosul and the children he encounters growing up amid its
ruins. He contemplates the graffiti-strewn ruins of Saddam
Hussein's former palaces, and he notes the constant presence of
armed guards. But there are patches of light amid the dark:
boisterous New Year celebrations in Akre, the friendliness of
generals and colonels at 'Checkpoint Cheerful', and public poetry
readings in Baghdad. People getting on with their lives. At the
same time, Michael charts the course of one of the great rivers of
the world, showing how the water that gave life to such ancient
settlements as Babylon and Ur is now becoming a scarce and hotly
contested resource. And he considers the role that Iraq's other
great natural resource - oil - plays in both providing wealth and
threatening political stability. Illustrated throughout with colour
photographs taken on the trip, and permeated with his warmth and
humour, this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country.
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