Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) - Softcover

Stark, Freya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848856555 ISBN 13: 9781848856554

Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 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. 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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Book Description:

The legendary adventurer and ground-breaking Freya Stark penned dozens of classic travel books, including these award-winners and more.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1848856555
• ISBN 13: 9781848856554
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224