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The Marsh Arabs

The Marsh Arabs

by Wilfred Thesiger, Jon Lee Anderson
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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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780141442082
ISBN10 0141442085
Series/Work OL2880103W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Penguin Classics
Pages 256
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Arabs Biography / Autobiography Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs Cultural Characteristics Description and travel Essays & Travelogues Ethnology Euphrates river History Iraq Iraq, description and travel Iraq, social life and customs Manners and customs Marsh Arabs Middle East - General Middle East - History - 20th Century Personal Memoirs Social life and customs Social Situations And Conditions Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910-2003

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