The Marsh Arabs.

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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.”