Road through Kurdistan
Subtitle: The Narrative of an Engineer in Iraq
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Published: January 13, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781850436379
Subjects: Travel writing; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Kurdistan; Highway engineering; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Religious; Biography/Autobiography; Iraq; Kurdistan (Iraq); Middle East - General; History / Middle East; Description and travel; Kurdiståan; Roads
First sentence: From whatever quarter the city is approached no one can forget his first sight of Baghdad as it appears on the flat horizon-tall minarets and even taller factory chimneys thrusting above the date palms and the domes of mosques.