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Books : The Marsh Arabs
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780002170680
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 000217068X
Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number Of Pages: 233
Publication Date: June 17, 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraqlong before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam HusseinWilfred 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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- A life of his choice...
Wilfred Thesiger led a remarkable life, and through his books has bequeathed an important legacy- the documentation of ways of life that are gone forever. His book, "Arabian Sands," which describes his two crossings of the Rub al Khali (The Empty Quarter) in the late `40's is more famous, but this book, which documents his time with the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, from 1951 to 1958 should command equal attention and respect. In terms of explorers, he is unique as the "Lone Ranger," traveling without ... Read More
Rating:
- travel and history
This author represents an era that preceded western involvement in the Arab world. It is both facinating and sad to read a good writers' account of his personal love of this mode of life and realization that it's almost doomed.
Rating: - witness to a lost landscape
Thesiger's account of his visits to the marshlands in the 1950s and early 1960s, though perhaps not as well written as his crossing of the empty quarter or Gavin Maxwell's own account of the Iraqi marshlands, still remains a classic of modern exploration literature. His presage about what would soon happen to the marshes and their inhabitants is haunting, for as Nik Wheeler (photographer in Gavin Young's "Return to the Marshes") recently wrote in my "Wetlands of Mass Destruction: Ancient Presage for Contemporary ... Read More
Rating: - Another fascinating picture of a vanishing way of life
Wilfred Thesiger led an amazing life. He was one of those Englishmen who are happiest when living far away from the comforts of modern life in dangerous surroundings with seemingly "primitive" people. Following many years living with the Bedu of the Empty Quarter, Thesiger traveled to Iraq to immerse himself in the life and culture of the Marsh Arabs.
What he found was a fusion of Arabic/islamic culture into a older life style which had existed for well over three thousand years, hunting and gathering ... Read More
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The Marsh Arabs
by: Wilfred Thesiger
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Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780002170680
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 000217068X
Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number Of Pages: 233
Publication Date: June 17, 1985
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Related Items:
- Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)
- A Vanished World
- The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
- A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels Among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
- The Life of My Choice
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraqlong before they were almost completely wiped out by Saddam HusseinWilfred 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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- A life of his choice...Wilfred Thesiger led a remarkable life, and through his books has bequeathed an important legacy- the documentation of ways of life that are gone forever. His book, "Arabian Sands," which describes his two crossings of the Rub al Khali (The Empty Quarter) in the late `40's is more famous, but this book, which documents his time with the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, from 1951 to 1958 should command equal attention and respect. In terms of explorers, he is unique as the "Lone Ranger," traveling without ... Read More
Rating:
- travel and historyThis author represents an era that preceded western involvement in the Arab world. It is both facinating and sad to read a good writers' account of his personal love of this mode of life and realization that it's almost doomed.
Rating:
- witness to a lost landscapeThesiger's account of his visits to the marshlands in the 1950s and early 1960s, though perhaps not as well written as his crossing of the empty quarter or Gavin Maxwell's own account of the Iraqi marshlands, still remains a classic of modern exploration literature. His presage about what would soon happen to the marshes and their inhabitants is haunting, for as Nik Wheeler (photographer in Gavin Young's "Return to the Marshes") recently wrote in my "Wetlands of Mass Destruction: Ancient Presage for Contemporary ... Read More
Rating:
- Another fascinating picture of a vanishing way of lifeWilfred Thesiger led an amazing life. He was one of those Englishmen who are happiest when living far away from the comforts of modern life in dangerous surroundings with seemingly "primitive" people. Following many years living with the Bedu of the Empty Quarter, Thesiger traveled to Iraq to immerse himself in the life and culture of the Marsh Arabs.
What he found was a fusion of Arabic/islamic culture into a older life style which had existed for well over three thousand years, hunting and gathering ... Read More
Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •
