Page 12 - The Tigris Expedition
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          1    In a Marsh Arab recd-housc                       24 and 25
          2    In the marshes of southern Iraq
          3    The river banks and floating reed islands of the marshes
          4    Old and new cultures meet in the marshes; berdi reeds for
               our reed-ship
          5    Three stages in the building of Tigris           40 and 41
          6-7  Ship building as in the days of the pyramid builders
          8    The reed-ship Tigris on the Shatt-al-Arab
          9    The Garden of Eden; the river at the building site, where the
               two rivers meet                                  72 and 73
         10    Pollution on the river Tigris
         11    Entering the gulf at the river’s mouth; adrift among ships of
               all nations; steering towards Kuwait
         12    A view from the topmast

         13    In the shallows of Failaka: the dhows; the Russian lifeboat
               gives a tow                                    104 and 105
         14    Towed by Slausk, the Russian merchantman
         15    Farewell to Captain Usakowsky, and to Slai/sk
         16    The hole ripped in Tigris’ bow

         17    Geoffrey Bibby shows a survival from antiquity; the bow of
               Tigris is repaired with palm stalks            136 and 137
         18    Burial mounds at Bahrain
         19    Bahrain: a long-lost port city with walled harbour basin
         20    Imported stone at Bahrain - heavy monumental pedestals,
               cut blocks of a temple, and walls of a sacred well

         21    Prehistoric quarries on Jcdda island           168 and 169
         22    Oil platforms and supertankers in the gulf
         23    Carlo preparing ropes; the cliffs of the Arabian peninsula
         24    Turning into shelter outside the Hormuz Strait; southward
               from the Strait
         25    The people of Oman                             184 and 185
         26    A Sumerian mini-ziggurat in Oman?
         27    The lost copper mines of legendary Makan
         28    Paolo Costa at the prehistoric slag heaps; bundle-boats in
               north Oman

         29    Sightseeing in a land closed to tourists       200 and 201
         30    Rowing a reed-ship away from land
         31    Thor I again
        32     In the shipping lane
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