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The Marsh Arabs
de Thesiger, Wilfred (Thesiger, W.)
- Nuevo
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- New/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 000217068X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002170680
- Librería
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London: Harper Collins, 1985. London: Harper Collins, 1985. Reprint. Cloth binding, 233 pp. Wilfred Thesiger's classic account of the eight years he spent living with the tribespeople of the Marshes of Iraq. First published in 1964 to great acclaim, this book by one of the century's greatest explorers describes a way of life which lasted for thousands of years, but has now all but vanished. Travelling with his medicine boxes and his teams of canoemen around the junction between the Tigris and the Euphrates, Thesiger visited nearly every village in the Central Marshes and came to know intimately the people who inhabit this landscape of islands, lakes and waterways, living with them in their reed houses and sharing their unique way of life. He beautifully evokes the landscape and its teeming wildlife and vividly brings to life the many friends he made among the Marsh Arabs. His extraordinary photographs provide a stunning record of the last remnants of a people and their culture. New.. Reprint. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Rose's Books, IOBA
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 020687
- Título
- The Marsh Arabs
- Autor
- Thesiger, Wilfred (Thesiger, W.)
- Ilustrador
- Illustrated
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo New
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 000217068X
- ISBN 13
- 9780002170680
- Editorial
- Harper Collins
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1985
- Palabras clave
- MARSH ARABS IRAQ
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Iraq; Middle East; Ancient History;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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