Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia

This was written during the two years that Tony trailed his wife, journalist and writer Geraldine Brooks, to her various posts in the MIddle East, 1988-1990. Given that these vignettes are 20 years old, the book might seem anachronistic and nostalgic, but Horwitz's observations remain relevant. It's......more

Tony Horwitz does it again! I just can’t get enough of this guy. This book is similar, though a bit different than the other books of his I’ve read, which at this point is all but two I believe. They are a mix of history and travelogue, Horwitz usually picking a certain “theme” or event from history......more

This is an interesting read about Horwitz, a Jewish American journalist, travelling around the gulf countries during the Iran-Iraq war. What makes it somewhat unbalanced is Horwitz's decision to make some of the story a straight travelogue and some a report on his own reporting - how he was filing s......more

I love Tony Horowitz, so it was a major pleasure to read some of his earlier work. I still think I prefer his writing on the South, Confederates in the Attic will always be such a good book, but this was a real enjoyable read.......more

I first read this book for a class I took my senior year in high school. That was back in 1996. I still have this book on my bookshelf. At least once a year, I still take it down to read a couple chapters or more. Every time I read it, I rediscover a part of the book that I find hilarious. How many......more