The Marsh Arabs
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2008
Summary
New to Black Classics for this Classic Travel Book, with a new introduction by Jon Lee Anderson
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 peopl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141442082 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141442085 |
| Author: | Wilfred Thesiger, Jon Lee Anderson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2008 |
| Weight: | 251g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Critics Review
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.
“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 “His voyage through desert waters will remain, like his Arabian Sands, a classic of travel writing.” —The Times (London)
About The Author
Wilfred Thesiger
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (1910-2003) was a British travel writer born in Addis Ababa in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). Thesiger is best known for two travel books- Arabian Sands (1959) recounts his travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950 and describes the vanishing way of life of the Bedouins, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), an account of the traditional peoples who lived in the marshlands of southern Iraq.
Jon Lee Anderson is 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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