Land of marvels: a novel / Barry Unsworth
2009, 1st Edition. London: Hutchinson. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #340893
Physical description: 287 pages; 25 cm. Summary: In this thriller set in the Middle East of 1914, Somerville, a British archaeologist, and his team are excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace when an American geologist from an oil company posing as an archaeologist arrives one day and insinuates himself into Somerville's group. But he's not the only one working undercover to stake a claim on Iraq's rich oil fields. Subjects: Americans Iraq Fiction.
Archaeologists Great Britain Fiction. British Iraq Fiction. Geologists United States Fiction. Excavations (Archaeology) Iraq Fiction.
Price: €10.95