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A carregar... Return to the Marshes: Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraqpor Gavin Young
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It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. Return to the Marshes, first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life as well as a love story to a place and its people. 'A superbly written essay which combines warmth of personal tone, a good deal of easy historical scholarship and a talent for vivid description rarely found outside good fiction.' Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — A carregar...GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)915.67History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Asia Middle East IraqClassificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (3.33)
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The latter parts of the book sketch his return in 1984 and sound caution about the survival of the Marsh Arabs; the Iran-Iraq conflict has intervened and industrial food production methods have been introduced.
Gavin Young shares his love of these generous, happy, hard working people.
It's to be regretted that terrible destruction was visited on Iraq a few decades later, an everlasting stain of blood engineered by war criminals Blair and Bush (junior).