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Review: The Prince of the Marshes

THE PRINCE OF THE MARSHES And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq Rory Stewart Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2006. 464pp, $24.00 paper (ISBN 0151012350).In another era, Rory Stewart would have made the perfect colonial officer: a Scot, born and raised in Asia, who served in both the British army and the Foreign Office before taking 20 months off to walk across Asia. (One suspects, too, that part of him would have enjoyed it. In The Places in Between, which describes his walk across Afghanistan, he observes, Colonial administrations may have been racist and exploitative, but they did at lea…