Excerpt from A Dweller in Mesopotamia: Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden Few adventurous incidents in our lives seem romantic at the time of their happening, and few places we visit invested with that glamour that haunt them in recollection or anticipation. I remember comparing the colour scheme of a barge in Baghdad with that of one in Rochester. It was a comparison most unfavourable to Baghdad - a thing the colour of ashes with a thing of red and green and gold. Yet now that I am back in Rochester, the romance lingers around memories of dusty mahailas. It is easy to forget discomfort and insects and feel a certain glamour coming back to things which, at the time, represented the commonplaces of life. There certainly is a glamour about Mesopotamia. It is not so much the glamour of the present as of the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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