A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, by Gavin Maxwell
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A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, by Gavin Maxwell
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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 explorer Wilfred Thesiger, who was Gavin Maxwell’s guide to the intricate landscape, tribal customs and distinctive architecture of the Marsh Arabs. Thesiger’s skill with a medicine chest and rifle assured them a welcome in every hamlet, and Maxwell’s sharp observation, honed as a naturalist and writer, has left an invaluable record of a unique community and a now-vanished way of life.
A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, by Gavin Maxwell- Amazon Sales Rank: #1654452 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-30
- Released on: 2015-09-30
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "This is prose close to poetry, written by a man of great perception and understanding."
About the Author Gavin Maxwell (1914-69) was a naturalist and author. His many books include "The Rocks Remain" and "Raven Seek Thy Brother", sequels to "Ring of Bright Water".
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A Reed Shaken By the Wind By Heidi Vernon This is a revelatory book about the culture of the Marsh Arabs in Iraq. The author travels with the famous expert, Wilfred Theisiger and gives the reader a deep understanding of why Iraq will resist any central government's attempt to form a cohesive central government. A classic!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. 'A maze of crooked alleys in a jungle of trumpeting wind-tormented reed stumps and withered sedge' By sally tarbox The first work I have read by Gavin Maxwell, whom I always equated with Scotland and otters; in this account of his time spent with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq (1956), he tells of his first encounters with the animal, in the reedy waterways by the Tigris - and of his discovery of an otter species which was named after him.But the main part of this work is of the place and the people, as he accompanies experienced adventurer, Wilfred Thesiger, in a reed canoe. staying in the reed homes of local sheikhs, he describes the villages, where each house is 'a tiny island of its own...we could see through their slit doors to firelit interiors where buffaloes shared their warmth with the human family. Not galleons perhaps, but Noah's Arks.'We read of the huge bird life, the turtles, fish ...and huge numbers of wild pigs, the hunting of which occupies the locals - not for food, but to keep down the numbers of a fierce creature. And of local life - dances, disease, generosity and dishonesty...Quite poetic at times, Maxwell describes a world which was to practically disappear under Saddam's rule, with the construction of canals - but is now being restored by ecologists.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Classic Travel Writing By Donald E. Gilliland I read Wilfred Thesiger's book about this trip first. That of course was a great travel/adventure tale, but Gavin Maxwell's book of the journey into the land of the Marsh Arabs is equally interesting, and I would rank it up there with the travel classics. Maxwell's book is also much funnier than Thesiger's more sober account of that trip. Maxwell has a wonderful eye for detail, and is able to successfully convey to the reader the feeling of what it was like to be among this most different culture.
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