Return to the Marshes [Lingua Inglese]: Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq - Brossura

Young, Gavin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140112154 ISBN 13: 9780140112153

Casa editrice: Penguin, 1989

Riassunto

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. His other acclaimed books include "Slow Boats to China", "Slow Boats Home" and "Worlds Apart".

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140112154
• ISBN 13: 9780140112153
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192