Iraq

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Iraq is a land of beauty and turmoil. Once better known as Mesopotamia, it is a land of two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, which sweep down from the mountains of Turkey to meet, eighty-five miles north of the Arabian Gulf, at one of the alleged sites of the Garden of Eden. This land is the cradle of great civilizations.
Today Iraq is busily adaptirig herself to the present through progressive industrialisation, reaching the modern world on a wave of oil, of black gold. But Iraqis are proud of their past - proud of forebears like Hammurabi, Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar, and of ancient Babylon, Ur of the Chaldees, Nineveh and Nimrud and the countless other sites of Iraq's antiquity which outnumber those of Greece or the Valley of the Nile.
Gavin Young and Nik Wheeler combined in 1977 to publish Return to the Marshes, a book on the life of the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq. Now they collaborate once again to produce this portrait of a country which fascinates and... Tovább

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Iraq is a land of beauty and turmoil. Once better known as Mesopotamia, it is a land of two great rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, which sweep down from the mountains of Turkey to meet, eighty-five miles north of the Arabian Gulf, at one of the alleged sites of the Garden of Eden. This land is the cradle of great civilizations.
Today Iraq is busily adaptirig herself to the present through progressive industrialisation, reaching the modern world on a wave of oil, of black gold. But Iraqis are proud of their past - proud of forebears like Hammurabi, Sennacherib and Nebuchadnezzar, and of ancient Babylon, Ur of the Chaldees, Nineveh and Nimrud and the countless other sites of Iraq's antiquity which outnumber those of Greece or the Valley of the Nile.
Gavin Young and Nik Wheeler combined in 1977 to publish Return to the Marshes, a book on the life of the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq. Now they collaborate once again to produce this portrait of a country which fascinates and beguiles them. Their book follows an itinerary which starts in Baghdad and central Iraq, moves south to Basra, the city of Sinbad the Sailor, and to the obscure lagoons and reed-beds of the Marsh Arabs, and finally swings north to the snow-capped mountains of Kurdistan. In preparing this book neither author nor photographer have needed to search for variety, contrast or colour - Iraq herself provides them in abundance. Vissza