RORY STEWART is the best-selling author of The Places in Between andThe Prince of the Marshes. A former director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy andRyan Professor of Human Rights atHarvard's Kennedy School of Government, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services in Iraq.Heis the Conservative Member of Parliament for Penrith and The Border, a constituency in Northern Cumbria, where he lives with his wife.