Land of Marvels

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2009 by Barry Unsworth

All Rights Reserved

Published in the United States by Nan A. Talese,

an imprint of The Doubleday Publishing Group,

a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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DOUBLEDAY is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Unsworth, Barry, 1930–

Land of marvels : a novel / Barry Unsworth. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Archaeologists—Great Britain—Fiction. 2. British—Iraq—Fiction. 3. Geologists—United States—Fiction. 4. Americans—Iraq—Fiction. 5. Excavations (Archaeology)—Iraq—Fiction. 6. Petroleum—Prospecting—Iraq—Fiction. 7. Petroleum industry and trade—Middle East—History—Fiction. 8. Great Britain—Foreign relations—1910–1936—Fiction. 9. Iraq—History—20th century—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6071.N8L36 2009

823’.914—dc22

2008009201

eISBN: 978-0-385-52947-1

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