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The Marsh Arabs

Wilfred Thesiger

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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.

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Pages:: 234 pages

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Edition:: Reissue

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0141442085

ISBN13:: 9780141442082

kindle Asin:: B004IATD3S

The Marsh Arabs

Wilfred Thesiger

4.19/5 (1219 ratings)

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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.

Format:

Pages:: 234 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: Reissue

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0141442085

ISBN13:: 9780141442082

kindle Asin:: B004IATD3S

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