Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia : And Other Misadventures in Arabia

by Horwitz, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780452267459
• ISBN10: 0452267455
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

This wild and comic tale of Middle East misadventure is "a very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region. Fearlessness is a valuable quality in a travel writer, and Mr. Horwitz . . . seems as intrepid as they come".--The New York Times Book Review.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Prologue: Love at First Sight	1	(4)
1. We Must Go to the East	5	(8)
2. YEMEN: Confessions of a Qat-Eater	13	(16)
3. YEMEN: For You I Make a Special Deal	29	(20)
4. PERSIAN GULF: The Strait of Hoummos	49	(23)
5. CAIRO DAYS: Ozymandias Slept Here	72	(17)
6. CAIRO NIGHTS: Dancing Sheik to Sheik	89	(14)
7. BAGHDAD: In the Land Without Weather	103	(17)
8. THE IRAQ-IRAN FRONT: Bodies	120	(12)
9. THE JORDAN RIVER: I Came for the Waters	132	(14)
10. LIBYA: The Colonel's Big Con	146	(25)
11. KHARTOUM: This Is the Way the World Ends	171	(21)
12. SOUTHERN SUDAN: Six Dinka Deep	192	(19)
13. ARABIAN FLIGHTS: Sky-High over Islam	211	(8)
14. TO BEIRUT: Jusqu'au Boutiste	219	(16)
15. TEHRAN: The Imam Is in the People's Hands	235	(10)
16. TEHRAN: Searching for the Twelfth Imam	245	(16)
17. EXODUS FROM EGYPT: Metal Fatigue	261	(6)
Epilogue: No One Makes Love to Iraq	267