 | The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq by Rory Stewart
Buy new: $10.00 / Used from: $5.21 Rory Stewart's first book.
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 | The Places In Between by Rory Stewart
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $1.49 Rory Stewart's second book.
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 | The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor (Modern Library Classics) by W.M. Thackston Jr.
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $6.00 Rory Stewart writes in The Week: "The...first Mughal emperor of India describes his journey from political exile to his conquest of a giant Muslim empire.... He does not attempt to conceal his defeats, his embarrassments, his unrequited loves. His clipped, confident prose reveals both the glory and the limits of medieval Central Asia."
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 | India: A Million Mutinies Now by V. S. Naipaul
Buy used from: $2.62 Rory Stewart writes in The Week: "A great, patient encyclopedia of India, illuminating the present through long biographies of tradesmen, entrepreneurs, and retired court officials. Strong prejudices and learning, controlled in careful, objective prose."
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 | Travels in Arabia Deserta: Volume 1 by Charles Montagu Doughty
Buy new: $26.22 / Used from: $23.60 Rory Stewart wrote in The Week: "Part pilgrim, part martyr-manqué, Doughty walks for two years through the most xenophobic areas of Arabia in the 1870s, enduring beatings, fevers, poverty, and death threats. He recorded it in an archaic Anglo-Saxoninflected epic prose."
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 | Travels in Arabia Deserta: Volume 2 by Charles Montagu Doughty
Buy new: $26.98 / Used from: $30.00 Rory Stewart wrote in The Week: "Part pilgrim, part martyr-manqué, Doughty walks for two years through the most xenophobic areas of Arabia in the 1870s, enduring beatings, fevers, poverty, and death threats. He recorded it in an archaic Anglo-Saxoninflected epic prose."
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 | Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $8.40 Rory Stewart wrote in The Week: "The structural anthropologists ironic, paradoxical insights into 'primitive culture' and the illusions of foreigners are combined with an adventure up the Amazon."
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 | River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.) by Peter Hessler
Buy new: $10.79 / Used from: $3.20 Rory Stewart wrote in The Week: "A Peace Corps volunteer describes two years teaching in a Chinese city on the Yangtze. Hesslers 2006 book is open to the comedy of the everyday; its self-deprecating, respectful, and funny. It captures the provincialism, the modernity, the xenophobia, and the energy of modern China."
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 | The Week - UK Edition
Buy new: $214.42 This list originally was originally published in the May 22, 2009 edition of this magazine.
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