Baghdad Sketches : Journeys Through Iraq

English

Series: The Freya Stark Collection

ISBN: 1848856555

EAN: 9781848856554

Category: Travel / Middle East / General

Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

Release Date: 05/04/2011

Synopsis: 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. Typicallyand controversiallyshe chose to live outside the close-knit western expatriate scene and immersed herself in the way of life of ordinary Iraqisliving 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 Shia. 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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Baghdad Sketches : Journeys Through Iraq

Illustrated: Yes

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.8 inches

Width: 5.14 inches

Length: 7.57 inches

Weight: 8.47 oz

Pages: 184