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The Marsh Arabs. (INSCRIBED)
by WILFRED THESIGER
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- near fine
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
HarperCollins, London, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Reprint - this copy inscribed by the author on the half-title in a rather shaky hand and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 219pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with three maps and fifty-four photographs by the author. Paperstock a little tanned, else a fine copy in lightly rubbed and fractionally dust marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A scarce inscribed re-issue of Thesiger's second book, an account of the eight years the author spent living with the indigenous people of the marshlands of southern Iraq. Sadly, this re-issue omits about half of Thesiger's superb photographs which appeared in the original 1964 edition..
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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- Title
- The Marsh Arabs. (INSCRIBED)
- Author
- WILFRED THESIGER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, London
- Date Published
- 2000
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