Creator
Wilfred Thesiger
Title
The Marsh Arabs.
Coverage
London
Publisher
Longmans Green and Co.
Date
1964
Subject
Signed by the author.
Description
The Marsh Arabs is an account of Wilfred Thesiger’s time in the marshes of Southern Iraq, where he lived from the end of 1951 until June 1958. As he remembered, “from my recollections, helped by my diaries, I have tried to give a picture of the Marshes and of the people who live there. Recent political upheavals in Iraq have closed this area to visitors. Soon the Marshes will probably be drained; when this happens, a way of life that has lasted for thousands of years will disappear.”