On the Marsh

On the Marsh
Author: Simon Barnes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2021-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781471168512

How writer Simon Barnes rewilded the marshland next to his garden to attract new species and to bring inspiration to his family

Forever Across the Marsh

Forever Across the Marsh
Author: Jeff Pearson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-11-12
Genre: Savannah (Ga.)
ISBN: 9780998025902

Mr. Scott believes he has found a formula for becoming a millionaire in less than 30 days. There is a problem. He lives in total chaos with his wife and young children. What follows is a roller coaster ride of misadventures - both serious and hilarious. This genre-defying novel is a series of short stories woven together as part of a powerful tale.

The Marsh Arabs

The Marsh Arabs
Author: Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008-01-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1436265584

“Five thousand years of history were here and the pattern was still unchanged.” During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of his time there, he pays tribute to the hospitality, loyalty, courage and endurance of the people, describes their impressive reed houses, the waterways and lakes teeming with wildlife, the herding of buffalo and hunting of wild boar, moments of tragedy and moments of pure comedy, all in vivid, engaging detail. Untouched by the modern world until recently, these independent people, their way of life and their surroundings suffered widespread destruction under the regime of Saddam Hussein. Wilfred Thesiger's magnificent account of his time spent among them is a moving testament to their now threatened culture and the landscape they inhabit.

Sisters of the Lost Marsh

Sisters of the Lost Marsh
Author: Lucy Strange
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2023-01-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338686488

From award winning author Lucy Strange comes a thrilling story of six sisters who must fight against circumstance and fate, gorgeously told and steeped in history and legend. On a poor farm surrounded by marshlands, six sisters -- Grace, Willa, Freya, and triplets Deedee, Darcy, and Dolly -- live in fear of their father and the superstition that haunts him: The Curse of the Six Daughters. Their beloved grandmother tries to protect them, but the future seems bleak. When the Full Moon Fayre makes a rare visit to Hollow-in-the-Marsh, the girls slip out to see the famous Shadow Man, an enigmatic puppeteer. Afterwards, oldest sister Grace is missing. Following the Full Moor Fayre and into the Lost Marsh, Willa will have to battle her inner doubts and the legends that have haunted her family. Can she save her sister from one fate, and yet outrun her own? The thrilling new novel from acclaimed author Lucy Strange, author of The Secret of Nightingale Wood, The Ghost of Midnight Lake and the Waterstones Prize-shortlisted Our Castle by the Sea.

Ecology of Dunes, Salt Marsh and Shingle

Ecology of Dunes, Salt Marsh and Shingle
Author: J.R. Packham
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1997-09-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780412579806

Summary: Discusses coastal sand dune, shingle beach, and salt marsh ecosystems, communities based upon relatively unconsolidated granular deposits which frequently rest upon solid rock or, much more rarely, on peat.

Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta

Marsh Dwellers of the Euphrates Delta
Author: S. M. Salim
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2021-01-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000323382

Dr Salim, of Bagdad University, spent two years amongst the remarkable tribal peoples who inhabit the great marshes of the lower Euphrates. He describes their social and economic organization and discusses on the one hand the process by which people with bedouin traditions and values have adapted themselves to different and difficult conditions, and on the other the effects upon them of submission to the central government and the modernisation of their modes of life that has resulted from it. His account offers a fascinating study of people living in an unusual environment, and will be of value to the anthropologist and ethnologist for its precise ethnography. At the same time, as one of the few detailed studies of the changes now being wrought on such a large scale by modern economic and political forces, it has real importance for the general student of contemporary Middle Eastern affairs.