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| | 2. |  | The Marsh Arabs
from HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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This author represents an era that preceded western involvement in the Arab world. It is both facinating and sad to read a good writers' account of his personal love of this mode of life and realization that it's almost doomed.
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| | 3. |  | Baghdad Sketches (Marlboro Travel)
from Marlboro Press
Price: $12.75
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The book offers a unique protrayal of Baghdad in the 1930s through the eyes of a young British woman who lived amongst its slum dwellers on less than £1 a day. Freya Stark's day-to-day encounters with people in the slums juxtaposed with Iraqi intelligentsia and the detached British elite who... more info
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| | 4. | [no image] | Passenger to Tehran
from Collins & Brown
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For anyone who loves to travel to strange and distant lands - or wishes they could - this may be the quintessential travel book. Vita Sackville-West was a great friend of Virginia Woolf, and shared her gift for superb storytelling as well as her love of the language.From the opening page, where... more info
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| | 9. |  | Iraq: The Bradt Travel Guide
from Bradt Travel Guides
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This book was published pre-war and at least one of the authors was a long-time advocate of lifting sanctions and ally of John Pilger. It's terrible on the Kurdish regions.More up-to-date is Gilles Munier 'Iraq: an Illustrated History and Guide', although it lacks the details re hotels... more info
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