<b>“A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world’s most combustible region.”—</b><i><b>The New York Times Book Review</b><br /></i><b><br />NATIONAL BESTSELLER<br /><br />Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz&apos;s 1991 classic account of his travels across the Middle East and through the Arabian Peninsula, now in eBook for the first time</b><br /><br />With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of the 1990s, to offer startling, honest close-ups of the Middle East. His quest for hot stories takes him from the tribal wilds of Yemen to the shell-pocked shores of Lebanon; from the sands of the Sudan to the souks of Saddam Hussein&apos;s Iraq.<br /><br />Careering through fourteen countries, including the Sudan, Iraq, Israel, and Afghanistan, Horwitz travels light, packing a keen eye, a wicked sense of humor, and chutzpah in overwhelming measure. This wild and comic tale of misadventure reports on a fascinating world in which the ancient and the modern collide.