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The Marsh Arabs

(Penguin Classics)

By Wilfred Thesiger, Jon Lee Anderson (Preface)

Paperback | 9780141442082

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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 acceptanceContinue

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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  • Arabian Days

    Do we need another poetic appreciation of the Arabs by an eccentric Englishman when the French Canadians are crying for justice, when Rhodesia and South Africa are what they are? The answer, I think, is that we do. Wilfred Thesiger’s extreme eccentri ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sun, 22 Aug 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 256 Pages
  • Edition: Reissue
  • ISBN-10: 0141442085
  • ISBN-13: 9780141442082
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
  • Pub date: Jan 02, 2008
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Others and eBook
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