Theme: nomad

Sahara: Vanishing Cultures

By Book Importer | Published: April 4, 2011

This book describes the way of life of the Tuaregs, a nomadic culture that presently exists in the Sahara, the world’s largest desert.

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Mongolia: Vanishing Cultures

By Book Importer | Published: October 6, 2010

Two nomadic Mongolian children listen to stories of the past from their father and yearn for their own horses, creatures essential to their way of life.

Descriptors: Asia, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Mongolia, Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The Boy who Ran with the Gazelles

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A desert nomad woman has no milk, so brings her pet gazelle for her son to nurse. One day the boy and the gazelle wander off, and the pet gazelle finds a herd of her own kind. She protects the boy and he learns to run and feed himself. Hunters discover and capture him. He [...]

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Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older [...]

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