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The Marsh Arabs

By Wilfred Thesiger

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Group
Year
2008
ISBN
9781436265584, 1436265584
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
2 MB (1651808 bytes)
Pages
256\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-06-29 08:19:20

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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