The Marsh Arabs (1964. new intro. 2007) [PENGUIN CLASSICS]

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The Marsh Arabs (1964. new intro. 2007)...

The Marsh Arabs (1964. new intro. 2007) [PENGUIN CLASSICS]

Name: The Marsh Arabs (1964. new intro. 2007) [PENGUIN CLASSICS]
ISBN: 9780141442082

Wilfred Thesiger, Jon Lee Anderson (intro. 2007)

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During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq-long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein-Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire, and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Traveling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicine and treating the sick.

In this account of a nearly lost civilization, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage, and endurance of the people, and describes their impressive reed houses, the waterways and lakes teeming with wildlife, the herding of buffalo and hunting of wild boar, moments of tragedy, and moments of pure comedy in vivid, engaging detail.

Categories:

Travel - Travel Writing

Year:

1964

Edition:

Penguin Paperback ed. 2008

Publisher:

fist issue 1964; Penguin Classics (2007. PB 2008)

Language:

english

Pages:

240