Author : Sam Kubba
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780863723339
This text is for those wishing to develop an understanding of a cultural legacy and lifestyle that survives today only as a fragmented cultural inheritance. The book illustrates how the economy and lives of the Ma'dan (Marsh Arabs) that spans over 5000 years remained similar to the ancient practices of their Sumerian forebears.
Author : Edward L. Ochsenschlager
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2004-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781931707749
Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
With a penchant for wine and women, Tyler is not the kind of man to let the law stand in his way. Rich, arrogant and spoiled, when his love of wine and cognac leads to the death of a young couple walking along a country lane, he'll do anything to avoid the consequences - including driving his car to his property in Mallorca so the English police can't examine it. When Superior Chief Salas orders all inspectors on the island to determine whether Tyler is in their area, laid-back Inspector Enrique Alvarez regards it, like all work, as an unwanted interruption to his lifestyle. He soon discovers, however, that this routine inquiry has far-reaching consequences he could never have foreseen.
Author : Gavin Young
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0571280978
It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. Return to the Marshes, first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life as well as a love story to a place and its people. 'A superbly written essay which combines warmth of personal tone, a good deal of easy historical scholarship and a talent for vivid description rarely found outside good fiction.' Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times
Author : Laith A. Jawad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030662381
The Mesopotamian marshes are important for economic, social, and biodiversity values and have been home to indigenous human communities for millennia. They are regarded as a legendary site. This multi-authored book contains chapters written by world-renowned experts in their field. Both basic and applied information are made available, making the book a must-have for a wide spectrum of users. For example, an understanding of the natural and the social aspects of the marshes, as described here, is an obvious prerequisite for a pest management plan in this area. Scholars interested in wetlands can use this book as a guide to compare different wetlands areas in Asia. The bibliography section contains valuable references to the marsh areas and research in the field. This book serves as an up-to-date comprehensive source of information on different aspects of the southern marshes of Iraq and is aimed at academic scholars, environmentalists, and decision makers.
Author : C. Max Finlayson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400740006
The Wetland Book is a comprehensive resource aimed at supporting the trans- and multidisciplinary research and practice which is inherent to this field. Aware both that wetlands research is on the rise and that researchers and students are often working or learning across several disciplines, The Wetland Book is a readily accessible online and print reference which will be the first port of call on key concepts in wetlands science and management. This easy-to-follow reference will allow multidisciplinary teams and transdisciplinary individuals to look up terms, access further details, read overviews on key issues and navigate to key articles selected by experts.
Author : Suzanne Alwash
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780988651432
Author : Tor Eigeland
Publisher : Olive Branch Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781566569828
Rare and visually stunning images of a lost world. This remarkable collection of photographs, captured by internationally acclaimed photojournalist Tor Eigeland in 1967, offers unprecedented insight into the daily life of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. These photographs illustrate the beauty of this unique environment—the marshlands between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers—and show a culture that existed practically unchanged for over 2,000 years. Some have even speculated that this place was the site of the original Garden of Eden. Under Saddam Hussein’s rule, vast areas of the marshlands were dammed and drained, causing catastrophic environmental damage and brutally forcing the marshes’ inhabitants to abandon their way of life. Now Tor Eigeland’s photographic journey stands as a monument, a rare record of a lost world and an ancient civilization. These precious photographs celebrate the people and culture of the marshlands and bring us back to a time and place where people lived in harmony with their environment. In the course of his long and distinguished career, Tor Eigeland has been published in such publications as Time-Life Books, Fortune, Newsweek, and Saudi Aramco World, to name but a few. He has collaborated on ten books for the National Geographic Society, and his assignments have taken him to some of the most remote corners of the globe. He now resides in the south of France.
Author : Faiza Al-Araji
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Matthew Olshan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374199396
A novel written in reverse relates the story of an aging prisoner who is released only to be rescued from an assault by a curator, who works at a museum exhibiting "the marshes, " a conflict-torn wilderness where the former prisoner committed his crime.
