Ebook {Epub PDF} The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger

What a delightful read. Thesiger lived among the marsh Madan of Iraq several months of each year between to As he traveled thru the marshes by boat, he introduces the reader to the many friends he made and to the culture of a people he came to love/5(85). For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their islands made of reeds. Now extinct, their ancient way of life is speculated to have existed for 5, years, going back to the days of ancient Sumer, and possessed a unique culture found nowhere else in the Middle East.  · "The Marsh Arabs" is a travel book first published in that describes the 8 years during the s that Wilfred Thesiger spent travelling in Iraqi marshs where the Maʻdān or shroog tribesmen lived. The author's intent is to write a lyrical tribute to a people whose style of life "had not changed for years"/5.

Poetic and immersing, The Marsh Arabs brings alive the sights, sounds, and smells of the marshes, and a culture that has now vanished forever. Read more Read less © Wilfred Thesiger (P) Naxos Audiobooks. 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. About The Marsh Arabs. "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. The Marsh Arabs, Wilfred Thesiger, Longmans, , First Edition, First Impression The author's account of his time living with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. During these eight years, Thesiger visited nearly every village with his medicine box and his team of canoemen and got to know these people and their way of life imtimately.

For a period of seven years, Wilfred Thesiger canoed through the marshes at the confluence of Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates rivers, living among the native Madan tribes and their islands made of reeds. Now extinct, their ancient way of life is speculated to have existed for 5, years, going back to the days of ancient Sumer, and possessed a unique culture found nowhere else in the Middle East. Thesiger's grandfather was Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford. Another Frederic Thesiger, a future Viceroy of India and the first Viscount Chelmsford, was an uncle, and the actor Ernest Thesiger was a cousin. Wilfred Thesiger and his younger brother were the only European children for most of his early years in Addis Ababa. "The Marsh Arabs" is a travel book first published in that describes the 8 years during the s that Wilfred Thesiger spent travelling in Iraqi marshs where the Maʻdān or shroog tribesmen lived. The author's intent is to write a lyrical tribute to a people whose style of life "had not changed for years".