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The Marsh Arabs

By Jon Lee Anderson , Wilfred Thesiger

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
2008
ISBN
0141442085, 9780141442082
Open Library ID
OL9388127M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8731902 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Pages
256\240
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

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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