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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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"Five thousand years of history were here and the pattern was still unchanged."

During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of his time there, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage and endurance of the people, 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, all in vivid, engaging detail. Untouched by the modern world until recently, these independent people, their way of life and their surroundings suffered widespread destruction under the regime of Saddam Hussein. Wilfred Thesiger's magnificent account of his time spent among them is a moving testament to their now threatened culture and the landscape they inhabit.

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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
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Thesiger, Wilfred, Iraq - Description and travel
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

"It is one thing to tell the story of an expedition . . . it is quite another to convey the atmosphere. . . . This is a richly rewarding book."
-The Observer, London

"His voyage through desert waters will remain, like his Arabian Sands, a classic of travel writing."
-The Times, London

About the author

Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) was a British explorer and travel writer. He was born at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Educated at Eton and Oxford, he worked in the Sudan Political Service and later, for a year, as a Political Officer for the Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie. He is best known for two travel books: Arabian Sands (1959) and The Marsh Arabs (1964).

Jon Lee Anderson (introducer) is one of America's most respected foreign correspondents and a staff writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of The Lion's Grave: Dispatches From Afghanistan (2002) and The Fall of Baghdad (2004).

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