The Marsh Arabs
by Thesiger, Wilfred
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.
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The Marsh Arabs. (INSCRIBED)
by WILFRED THESIGER.
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HarperCollins, London, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). Reprint - this copy inscribed by the author on the half-title in a rather shaky hand and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 219pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with three maps and fifty-four photographs by the author. Paperstock a little tanned, else a fine copy… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Marsh Arabs: with 'The Marshmen of Southern Iraq' (Geographical Journal 1954); and 'Marsh Dwellers of Southern Iraq' (The National Geographic Magazine, signed by Thesiger on the front cover and on the first page of his article)
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Longmans, Green, and Co., 1964. 1st edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth with gilt spine lettering, tiny areas of paling, pages and over 100 illustrations and maps very clean, trifling flecking to the text blocks, in a clean, unclipped dustjacket, a little nibbling at the spine ends and corners. Overall, a near fine copy. Accompanying the book are two scarce… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Marsh Arabs
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The Marsh Arabs
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London: Longmans, 1964.. First edition, 8vo, (xvi), 242 pp. Frontispiece and 109 photographic illustrations, signed by the author on the title page. Cloth, d.w., some minor rubbing otherwise an excellent copy. A classic work on the now displaced peoples of the marshes of Iraq, where the Tigris and Euphrates meet. Thesiger spent five months in neighbouring Iran in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Longmans, 1964. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The first hand account of Wilfred Thesiger's experiences living with the Marsh Arabs, a lavishly illustrated superior first edition copy. The first edition first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Wilfred Thesiger lived amongst the tribes in the marshes of Iraq for eight years. In… Read more about this item Item Price
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NY. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Cloth; E. P. Dutton & Co Inc; 1964; . First Edition. Thesiger, Wilfred. The Marsh Arabs. NY: E.P. Dutton & Co, Inc., 1964, First Edition, 242 pages. Illustrated dust wrapper very good, chipping along edges. Blue cloth with blue titles to spine and blue illustration to the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Marsh Arabs
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The Marsh Arabs
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New York: E. P. Dutton, 1964. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Good. 110 Photograp;Hs; Maps. 242 Pp. Blue Cloth. First American Printing, 1964. Very Good +, Light Usage, Bookplate. Dust Jacket Priced $6.60, Wear, Slight Fading To Spine, Edges With Short Tears And Small Losses.
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The Marsh Arabs
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The Marsh Arabs (Penguin Classics)
by Thesiger, Wilfred
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The Marsh Arabs
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London: Harper Collins, 1985. London: Harper Collins, 1985. Reprint. Cloth binding, 233 pp. Wilfred Thesiger's classic account of the eight years he spent living with the tribespeople of the Marshes of Iraq. First published in 1964 to great acclaim, this book by one of the century's greatest explorers describes a way of life which lasted for thousands of years, but… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Harper Collins, 1985. Book. Illus. by Illustrated. New. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. London: Harper Collins, 1985. Reprint. Cloth binding, 233 pp. Wilfred Thesiger's classic account of the eight years he spent living with the tribespeople of the Marshes of Iraq. First published in 1964 to great acclaim, this book by one of the century's… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Marsh Arabs (Travel Library)
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The marsh arabs
by THESIGER, Wilfred
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London: Longmans, green & co ltd , 1964. 242pp, [14]. With 109 black and white photographic illustrations, and three maps. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt and black, with the photographic dustwrapper. Some edgewear, with the bookplate of Richard Calvert Williamson. Inscribed to Henry Williamson by his wife 'To my darling husband on his birthday, August 1964, with all… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Marsh Arabs
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Harper Collins, 1985. 2nd. hardcover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. shelf wear on the jacket. foxing. though a bit marked, book remains intact and presentable. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Item Price
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The Marsh Arabs
by Wilfred Thesiger
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The Marsh Arabs
by Wilfred thesiger
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(Dubai): Motivate Publishing, (1994).. 8vo, 206 pp. Black and white photographic illustrations, signed on the title page by the author. Cloth, d.w., a fine copy. Item Price
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