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When All the Lands Were Sea
A Photographic Journey into the Lives of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
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- Publisher: Olive Branch Press (October 14, 2014)
- Length: 112 pages
- ISBN13: 9781566569828
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"During the 1990s, the Iraqi government drained the marshes between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, destroying the millennia-old heritage and homeland of its residents, the Marsh Arabs. Decades before, in 1967, photojournalist Tor Eigeland visited and recorded their way of life. This book is that precious record and it stands as a valuable complement to the scarce books on these people, including explorer Wilfrid Thesiger's classic The Marsh Arabs and Edward Ochsnenschlager's ethnoarcheological study Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden. Eigeland entertains with his adventures and captures the atmosphere with his prose, but his photographs are this volume's strength. Most are candid; where they're posed, the people's warmth and character shines. He records all aspects of their lives such as building with reeds, cooking, fishing, hunting and playing. This book suits home coffee tables as well as the bookshelves of anyone interested in the human history of Iraq."
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