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Gavin Young

It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. Return to the Marshes, first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life as well as a love story to a place and its people. 'A superbly written essay which combines warmth of personal tone, a good deal of easy historical scholarship and a talent for vivid description rarely found outside good fiction.' Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times

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Thomas Tchatchoua

Ce livre se veut une agréable plongée dans l'univers fabuleux, riche et extraordinaire de l'histoire et des traditions d'un peuple africain. L'auteur conte l'Afrique noire dans ses us et coutumes, dans ce qu'elle avait de merveilleux, d'original et de magique et débouche sur l'épineuse question de savoir ce qu'il faut faire pour que le continent avance, tire le maximum de ses nombreux atouts et de son passé de gloire.

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Barbara A. Margolies

An eight-year-old boy who lives in the city of Kathmandu takes a tour of several small towns and villages of Nepal, observing many traditional customs and activities.

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Peter & Connie Roop

Introduces the country of India, including the land, landmarks, homes, food, clothes, work, transportation, language, school, sports, celebrations, and the arts.