Unsworth Barry:
Land Of Marvels
Arrow Books Ltd (United Kingdom)
Paperback, 304 pages
Size: 198x129 mm
ISBN: 9780099534549
ISBN-10: 0099534541
List price: £7.99
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Land Of Marvels
In 1914, as the Great War looms, a disparate cast of characters is thrown together in the desert of Mesopotamia. English, Ottoman and German interest groups - soldiers, spies, engineers - find their priorities clashing as they use the land for their own self-interest in the pursuit of mineral wealth, trade routes, and the fading power of the Ottoman empire. Germans are securing trade routes with a new railway, the Bedouin want to retain their way of life, a major in the Royal Engineers goes undercover, secretly mapping for the British the areas rich in oil. The only idealist is English archaeologist Somerville, whose presence is the fulfilment of a dream.
