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(Paperback, New edition)

By: Gavin Maxwell

ISBN: 9780907871934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2003
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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A portrait of the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, and their disappearing way of life.


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Maxwell

ISBN: 9780907871149
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
UK Publication Date: 24th September 2004
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Madini and T'hami El Glaoui, sons of a Moroccan by an Ethiopian concubine, rose meteorically to power in the medieval state of Morocco at the end of the 19th century. This is the epic story of the more than 50 years in which they governed the country in barbaric, ostentatious splendor, until their spectacular downfall in 1956. Full-color photos.


(Paperback)

By: Gavin Maxwell

ISBN: 9780140290493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2001
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - he settled there with the otters Mij, Edal and Teko. This title chronicles his life with these playful animals in this natural paradise and the story of the difficult last years and the final abandonment of the settlement.