Land of marvels
Subtitle: a novel
By: Barry Unsworth.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780385520072
Subjects: Archaeologists -- Great Britain -- Fiction; British -- Iraq -- Fiction; Geologists -- United States -- Fiction; Americans -- Iraq -- Fiction; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Iraq -- Fiction; Petroleum -- Prospecting -- Iraq -- Fiction; Petroleum industry and trade -- Middle East -- History -- Fiction; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1910-1936 -- Fiction; Iraq -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.