by Wilfred Thesiger · Ediciones Península · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483073544
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«Los árabes de las Marismas» is the travel book by Wilfred Thesiger, published by Ediciones Península in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Wilfred Thesiger lived among the Madan of the marshes of southern Iraq before their near-total disappearance due to Saddam Hussein's policies. By canoe he earned their trust and tended to the sick; he portrays their reed houses, canals and lakes, buffalo herding, wild boar hunting, and the hospitality, courage and resilience of the people.
Original title: The Marsh Arabs (1964). Number 32 in the Altaïr Viajes collection. Spanish edition published in 2001. Winner of the W. H. Heinemann Award in 1964.
For readers interested in travel writing, anthropology and the history of the Middle East.
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, also known as Mubarak bin Landan, was a British military officer, explorer, and writer. Thesiger's travel books include Arabian Sands (1959), on his foot and camel crossing of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), on his time living with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq.
