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"The Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq were one of the most isolated communities in the world. Few outsiders, let alone Europeans, had been permitted to travel through their homeland, a mass of tiny islands lost in a wilderness of reeds and swamps in southern Iraq." One of the few trusted outsiders was the legendary explorer, Wilfred Thesiger, who was Gavin Maxwell's guide to the intricate landscape, tribal customs and distinctive architecture of the Marsh Arabs. Thesiger's skill with a medicine chest and rifle assured them a welcome in every hamlet, and Maxwell's training as a naturalist and writer has left an invaluable record of a unique community and a vanished way of life.
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Mike Cunt
reviewed A Reed Shaken by the Wind: Travels Among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq on July 10, 2014 A Reed Shaken by the Wind
This is great. Second only to Thesiger's The Marsh Arabs, and essentially a retelling of Thesiger's final visit to the marshes, when Gavin Maxwell accompanied him. They were there around three months.
Maxwell has a great writing style. He describes the places and events well, and the photographs dispersed throughout the book are excellent.
Thesiger to Maxwell "Shooting here is not a bit like any ideas you might have. It's a strictly unsporting business, and we expect - and get - at least 200 percent" (This was quite untrue, although I did not yet know it; it was a laudable effort to instill principle rather than fact.) "You get as many coots in a row as you can; and you can only take single flying shots at duck and so on, and then God help if you miss. It's food we're after, we can't carry enough cartridges for sport. Your reputation among these people will stand or fall absolutely by what you kill or don't kill, and they're all watching you."
Having luckily shot 3 coots from 2 cartridges, Thesiger continues "Pity you aren't leaving us now; trouble about reputations won on flukes is that they're so shortlived."
At the end of the book, Maxwell obtains the otter he takes back to Scotland, and which becomes the star of his later otter books.
Read this book after Thesiger's The Marsh Arabs, and before Gavin Young's Return To The Marshes.
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