Chapter 10: Teaser Tuesday 11.8.2009

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. This is my first participation. :)



The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page.
• Be careful not to include spoilers!
• Share the title & author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participiants can add the book to their to be read lists if they like your teasers!

I'm currently reading Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth.
It is a novel set in Mesopotamia in 1914. A British archeologist is directing an escavation in the desert, but the wings of war are approaching...

Here are my teaser sentences:

"If a major in the Turkish Army, heavily escorted, were travelling about, questioning local chiefs and making maps in some part of the British Empire, some region of India, for example, he would have been at once arrested and locked up. Yet Manning assumed the right to do the same thing in Mesopotamia and seemed ready to take offence if the right was questioned." [p. 39]