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The Marsh Arabs (Travel Library) by Wilfred Thesiger is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Marsh Arabs (Travel Library) about?
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.
Who reads The Marsh Arabs (Travel Library)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Wilfred Thesiger
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140095128
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Travel, Travel Writing
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