RETURN TO THE MARSHES A remarkable portrait of the remote and beautiful worlds of the Arab Marshes by Gavin Young

An Iraq travel classic. This is a used paperback with normal signs of age for a 20+ year old paperback: pages are browning, a some age spots, light reading wear, looks rough but perfectly readalbe and cheap. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and condition - enjoy!

This is an evocation of the beautiful and exotic world of the marsh Arabs, who inhabit "the cradle of civilization". The author first went there in the 1950s taken by the Arabist, Wilfred Thesiger. On his return after more than twenty years, he found not only that he was remembered, but that the changes, unlike those in many societies around the world, were for the better. Sadly, this book, first published in 1973, is now an elegy for a land and a lifestyle which have been decimated by the Gulf War; Gavin Young has written a short epilogue, bringing the story up to date.

Book Details

Code: SKU392

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 184

Published: 1989 by Penguin

ISBN: 0140112154

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