Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia, (Paperback)

from Sandydog1

This was excellent. Most 90s travelogues don't stand the test of time, but this one is a sweeping shoes-on-the ground compilation of stories with representation of most Middle Eastern Countries. It gives a good flavor for Middle East culture and politics up until just prior to the Iraq invasion b...

from DoraBadollet

There were parts of Horwitz's work that were absolutely absorbing, and other chapters that I found myself skimming through. It was interesting to read his perspective on and experience in war-torn Iraq (this is years before all of the press and attention it now receives) and his days spent experi...

from amyblue

This is a great travelogue, very funny and enlightening about the middle east. Its companion volume Nine Parts of Desire by his wife Geraldine Brooks about her voyages in the same area but with women. Nine Parts of Desire is much more serious, however.

from OregonKimm

I first began reading Baghdad Without a Map well over a year ago. For some reason, I ended up setting the book down with about a quarter of it left to read. Not really sure why I did that and for the longest time, I was convinced that the book was a bad read and I wasn't able to finish it. Thus, ...

from SeriousGrace

Baghdad in the mid 1980s was such a volatile place to be. For Tony Horwitz to be bombing around (pun totally intended) Arabia was insane. There he was, in a land where even local weather reports and maps were banned. Think about it. As a left handed, Jewish stringer, he was not the most popular p...