The Marsh Arabs
by Thesiger, Wilfred
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 000217068X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002170680
- Seller
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Mordialloc, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Arete Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011035
- Title
- The Marsh Arabs
- Author
- Thesiger, Wilfred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- ISBN 10
- 000217068X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002170680
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Pub Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Pages
- 240
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- X weight
- 0 kg
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