A Reed Shaken by the Wind : Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

A Reed Shaken by the Wind : Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

Gavin Maxwell

Språken
FörlagEland Publishing
ISBN9781780600604

The Marsh Arabs were one of the most isolated communities in the world. Few outsiders, let alone Europeans, had been permitted to travel through their homeland, a mass of tiny islands lost in a wilderness of reeds and swamps in southern Iraq. One of the few trusted outsiders was the legendary explor