A 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:first edition of The Marsh Arabs, signed by the author, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Wilfred Thesiger.

• Wilfred Thesiger (English).
• London: Longmans, 1964.
• Octavo.
• [xii], 242 pages.
• Profusely illustrated with maps and photographs by the author.
• Signed by the author in 2000.
• Bound in the original green cloth, gilt, with a price-clipped dust jacket.

The Marsh Arabs is an account of Thesiger's time in the marshes of southern Iraq where he lived from the end of 1951 until June 1958. He writes inဣ the introduction: "From my rec🦩ollections, helped by my diaries, I have tried to give a picture of the Marshes and of the people who live there. Recent political upheavals in Iraq have closed this area to visitors. Soon the Marshes will probably be drained; when this happens, a way of life that has lasted for thousands of years will disappear."

After the enthusiastic reception of Arabian Sands, this second work "confirmed Thesiger's reputation as a writer and a photographer ... [He was celebrated for] the manner in which he traveled,💙 the enduring relationships he forged among tribes in remote, seldom visited areas, and the way he ca⛄ptured for posterity fast disappearing ways of life. By the time of his death he was widely acknowledged as among the greatest of twentieth-century explorers" (ODNB).