Sattin, Anthony
Summary: "The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history. Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 SATEnglebert, Victor.
Summary: Wind, Sand, & Silence is an extraordinary photographic document by world traveler/photographer Victor Englebert. Over a period of twenty-six years - from 1965 to 1991 - Englebert lived and traveled with the nomads of Africa. While accompanying them on their journeys across the vast African terrain, or simply living with them in their camps, Englebert captured stunning images of their daily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 1992
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 305.9 ENGSummary: "One of the preeminent figures of Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf has written and directed an impressive array of acclaimed films, winning accolades at international film festivals and admiration of world cinema audiences. This collection presents three of his most lyrical works which the director has termed his Poetic Trilogy. Gabbeh tells of an elderly couple who stop by a stream to wash...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOHGrevemberg, Noami J.
Summary: "In 2016, Noami Grevemberg knew she had to make a big change. Dissatisfied with her office job and her "stationary home," she decided to quit her job, sell her belongings, and set out in her 1985 Volkswagen Vanagon to pursue a life of simplicity and travel with her husband and German Shepherd by her side. In her years living full-time on the road, Noami has become an expert in all things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.7 GREDavidson, Robyn
Summary: The author tells of her experiences traveling through a year's migratory cycle with the Rabari nomads of northwest India in 1992.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.4 DAVMadia, Brianna
Summary: "In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "A fresh, captivating memoir about an indomitable woman's journey from her idyllic childhood with her nomadic grandmother in the deserts of Somalia to her escape from her country's brutal civil war and eventually to America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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Summary: This book is the culmination of things Elsa and I have learned while exploring the backcountry of the western United States for the last five years. I wrote this to be the handbook I needed when we began our journey; it contains personal stories, esoteric strategies typically left out of nomad Youtube videos, thought patterns we’ve found useful, rigs and climates we like, how we monetized our...
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.7 LINMay, Molly Caro.
Summary: "Molly Caro May grew up as part of a nomadic family, one proud of their international sensibilities, a tribe that never settled in one place for very long. Growing up moving from foreign country to foreign country, just like her father and grandfather, she became attached to her identity as a global woman from nowhere. But, on the verge of turning thirty years old, everything changed. Molly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAY, MOLLY CARO MAYHarding, Andrew.
Summary: "In The Mayor of Mogadishu, one of the BBC's most experienced foreign correspondents, Andrew Harding, reveals the tumultuous life of Mohamoud 'Tarzan' Nur--an impoverished nomad who was abandoned in a state orphanage in newly independent Somalia, and became a street brawler and activist. When the country collapsed into civil war and anarchy, Tarzan and his young family became part of an exodus,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B NUR HARDINGSummary: In the Gobi Desert, a family of nomads, who assist in the birth of its camel herd, face a crisis when one white calf is rejected by its mother. With all hope lost, the family sends its two young boys on a journey to a far-off village to fetch a musician capable of performing a magical ceremony.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2005
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Summary: Introduces readers to Mongol warriors, including their history and famous battles, uniforms and weapons, and training and tactics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Childs World Inc 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J932 CHIDorsey, Jenny
Summary: "From the shores of Kyoshi Island to the crowded streets of Ba Sing Se, this official cookbook collects signature dishes from all four nations, like vegetarian plates of the Air Nomads, fiery entrees from the Fire Nation, seafood from the North and South Poles, and delectable cuisine from the Earth Kingdom."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 641.5 DORSummary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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Summary: When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2019
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Summary: "The rising movement of regenerative agriculture--a holistic approach to growing food that restores soil and biodiversity and could even reverse global warming--holds great promise for transforming our food system while reclaiming planetary and human health. Yet there is a little-known fact that could amplify the call for change: Within a decade, nearly half of all farmland in America will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Countryman Press, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: "The impact of the Norman Conquest in England can't be overstated. After William of Normandy conquered the Anglo-Saxons in 1066, the very culture of England changed, from the social structure to the written language. This carefully researched and accessible volume explains the Normans' strategy, significant events on and off the battlefield, and the key figures to know about this momentous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 942.02 ROEYogerst, Joseph R.
Summary: From a vineyard route through Northwest wine country to a winter wonderland on Alberta's Icefields Parkway, this informative travel guide offers epic sights, good bites, and pure fun. Pack your car and hit the road to experience 100 drives--both classic and off the beaten track--across the United States and Canada. You'll find innovative itineraries outlining your route, along with when to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 YOGLancewood, Miriam
Summary: "Miriam Lancewood lives a primitive, nomadic life in the heart of the mountains with her husband in New Zealand. She lives simply in a tent or hut and survives by hunting wild animals, foraging edible plants and using minimal supplies. For the last six years, she and her husband have lived this way through all seasons, often cold, hungry and isolated but, more importantly, connected to the land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Piatkus 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LANCEWOOD, MIRIAM LANSummary: This annually updated travel guide to Alaska and Northwest Canada is a must-have resource for travelers to these areas. "The Milepost" provides maps, diagrams, photographs, and an almost mile-by-mile travelogue of what to expect along the main roads.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morris Communications Company, LLC 2023