Road Through Kurdistan: Travels in Northern Iraq. With introduction by David McDowall, London, New York, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 232 p.
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2 janvier 2007
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Christine Allison, « Road Through Kurdistan: Travels in Northern Iraq. With introduction by David McDowall, London, New York, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 232 p. », Abstracta Iranica, ID : 10.4000/abstractairanica.6079
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A welcome re-edition in affordable format of one of the classic autobiographical accounts of the British Mandate, this amiable book (which was first published in 1937) describes Hamilton’s experiences as engineer in charge of a new road from Erbil to Persia through the gorges and mountains of Kurdistan, along ways previously only passable by mule. It took a workforce of six hundred men of various nationalities and religions, equipped with explosives and machinery, four years to complete; loca...