The Marsh Arabs.

Description:

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.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Marsh Arabs,  Arabs,  History,  Description and travel,  Vida social y costumbres,  Travel writing,  Middle East - History - 20th Century,  Social Situations And Conditions,  Travel,  Biography / Autobiography,  Iraq,  Essays & Travelogues,  Middle East - General,  Personal Memoirs,  Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs,  Thesiger, Wilfred, 1910-2003,  Manners and customs,  Ethnology,  Cultural Characteristics,  Iraq, description and travel,  Tigris river valley,  Euphrates river,  Iraq, social life and customs,  Journeys

Places: Euphrates River Valley,  Tigris River Valley,  Tigris, Río (Valle),  Iraq