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Land of Marvels is a historical novel by the author Barry Unsworth. It is set in Mesopotamia on the eve of the first world war. Synopsis. John Somerville, an archaeologist digging in Mesopotamia, is racing against time hoping he'll make an important discovery before the German built Baghdad Railway comes and claims the mound he is digging on ...
- Barry Unsworth
- 2009
Jan 6, 2009 · In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. Somerville, a British archaeologist, is excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace.
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Dec 24, 2008 · In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. Somerville, a British archaeologist, is excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace.
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Jan 6, 2009 · In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, he brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. Somerville, a British archaeologist, is excavating a long-buried Assyrian palace.
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Jan 11, 2010 · Land of Marvels: A Novel. Paperback – January 11, 2010. by Barry Unsworth (Author) 3.8 133 ratings. See all formats and editions. “There is something of E. M. Forster in Unsworth’s knowing depiction of a decaying empire.”―The New Yorker.
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- Barry Unsworth
- Barry Unsworth
Jan 6, 2009 · The Booker Prize–winning British author’s latest novel is a tale of archaeological exploration and global political cross-purposes, set in the former Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the immediate pre-war year of 1914.
Jan 16, 2009 · In this historical novel, characters dig, seduce and scheme around the untapped oil fields in the land that will become Iraq.
