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The Marsh Arabs
Author | : Wilfred Thesiger |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2007-10-25 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780141904436 |
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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 have 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.
The Marsh Arabs
Author | : Wilfred Thesiger |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Euphrates River Valley |
ISBN | : OCLC:856240623 |
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The Iraqi Marshlands and the Marsh Arabs
Author | : Sam Kubba |
Publsiher | : Trans Pacific Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0863723330 |
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This text is for those wishing to develop an understanding of a cultural legacy and lifestyle that survives today only as a fragmented cultural inheritance. The book illustrates how the economy and lives of the Ma'dan (Marsh Arabs) that spans over 5000 years remained similar to the ancient practices of their Sumerian forebears.
Iraq s Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden
Author | : Edward L. Ochsenschlager |
Publsiher | : UPenn Museum of Archaeology |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 193170774X |
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Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq.
Return to the Marshes
Author | : Gavin Young |
Publsiher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780571280971 |
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It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. Return to the Marshes, first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life as well as a love story to a place and its people. 'A superbly written essay which combines warmth of personal tone, a good deal of easy historical scholarship and a talent for vivid description rarely found outside good fiction.' Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times
The Marsh Arabs
Author | : Wilfred Thesiger |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2008-01-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0141442085 |
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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.
The Tribes Of The Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Author | : Fulanain, |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136193385 |
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The Arab tribes of Iraq differ widely in custom but remain in all essentials of thought and conduct a distinctive and unique group. Their land embraces wide deserts, fertile fields and boundless swamps; its unique features shape the lives of its people. Taking the figure of Haji Rikkan as a central focus, the writer-traveller attempts to create a picture of Arab tribal life as a whole.
The Prince of the Marshes
Author | : Rory Stewart |
Publsiher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2007-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780156033008 |
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An adventurous diplomat’s “engrossing and often darkly humorous” memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein(Publishers Weekly). In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year. As a participant he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, it amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.