Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq Contributor(s): Stark, Freya (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848856555 ISBN-13: 9781848856554 Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | Middle East - General |
Dewey: 956.747 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.55 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: Freya Stark first journeyed to Iraq in 1927. Seven years after the establishment of the British Mandate, the modern state was in its infancy and worlds apart from the country it has since become. During her many years in Iraq, Stark was witness to the rise and fall of the British involvement in the country as well as the early years of independence. Typically--and controversially--she chose to live outside the close-knit western expatriate scene and immersed herself in the way of life of ordinary Iraqis--living in the "native" quarter of the city and spending time with its tribal sheikhs and leaders. Venturing out of Baghdad, she traveled to Mosul, Nineveh, Tikrit and Najaf, where she perceptively describes the millennia-old tensions between Sunni and Shi'a. In the 1940s she returned again, this time traveling south, to the Marsh Arabs, whose way of life has now all but disappeared; north into Kurdistan and later, Kuwait, in the days before the oil boom. |
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