During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq
Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life
that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to
village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and
treating the sick. In this account of his time there he pays
tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage and endurance of the
people, 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, all in
vivid, engaging detail. Untouched by the modern world until
recently, these independent people, their way of life and their
surroundings have suffered widespread destruction under the regime
of Saddam Hussein. 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.
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