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The Marsh Arabs Paperback - 2007
by Wilfred Thesiger; Introduction by Jon Lee Anderson
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Detailing the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq--long before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam Hussein--Thesiger pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage, and endurance of the people, and describes their way of life in vivid, engaging detail.
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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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- Title The Marsh Arabs
- Author Wilfred Thesiger; Introduction by Jon Lee Anderson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, England
- Publication date 2007-12-01
- Features Glossary, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780141442082 / 0141442085
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.04 x 0.65 in (19.71 x 12.80 x 1.65 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Library of Congress subjects Thesiger, Wilfred, Iraq - Description and travel
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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