Return to the Marshes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Return to the Marshes write by Gavin Young. This book was released on 2011-10-20. Return to the Marshes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Return to the Marshes
Return to the Marshes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Return to the Marshes write by Gavin Young. This book was released on 1989. Return to the Marshes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Prince of the Marshes
The Prince of the Marshes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prince of the Marshes write by Rory Stewart. This book was released on 2007-02-01. The Prince of the Marshes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An adventurous diplomat’s “engrossing and often darkly humorous” memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein(Publishers Weekly). In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year. As a participant he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, it amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.
Eden Again
Eden Again - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eden Again write by Suzanne Alwash. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Eden Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Salt Marshes
Salt Marshes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Salt Marshes write by Judith S Weis. This book was released on 2009-07-16. Salt Marshes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tall green grass. Subtle melodies of songbirds. Sharp whines of muskrats. Rustles of water running through the grasses. And at low tide, a pungent reminder of the treasures hidden beneath the surface.All are vital signs of the great salt marshes' natural resources. Now championed as critical habitats for plants, animals, and people because of the environmental service and protection they provide, these ecological wonders were once considered unproductive wastelands, home solely to mosquitoes and toxic waste, and mistreated for centuries by the human population. Exploring the fascinating biodiversity of these boggy wetlands, Salt Marshes offers readers a wealth of essential information about a variety of plants, fish, and animals, the importance of these habitats, consequences of human neglect and thoughtless development, and insight into how these wetlands recover. Judith S. Weis and Carol A. Butler shed ample light on the human impact, including chapters on physical and biological alterations, pollution, and remediation and recovery programs. In addition to a national and global perspective, the authors place special emphasis on coastal wetlands in the Atlantic and Gulf regions, as well as the San Francisco Bay Area, calling attention to their historical and economic legacies. Written in clear, easy-to-read language, Salt Marshes proves that the battles for preservation and conservation must continue, because threats to salt marshes ebb and flow like the water that runs through them.
