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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I feared as I began to read this that it was just going to be a plea for us all to return to some kind of "true life" as nomads, but thankfully the author curbed his enthusiasm and gives us a much more balanced and thoughtful insight into nomadic life through the ages with useful sections on the non-European empires. Well worth a read. ( ) A somewhat detailed history of the world from an unexpected perspective. Most of history was passed along via meticulous oral tradition until cuneiform and runes began followed by words on a surface. Please do not mistake a lack of what we call literacy with a lack of intelligence (most of us have a hard enough time re-enacting time periods only a couple of centuries past). Nomads/wanderers are shown from most areas of the globe, but primarily from Eurasia/China/the Mediterranean. This work is extremely readable and I look forward to getting my own permanent copy. The audiobook is narrated by the author, and you can never go wrong with that! Besides, his voice is pleasant and appropriately pronounced. I requested and received a temporary audiobook from HighBridge Audio via NetGalley. Thak you! Did you know that 1 in every 200 men today shares DNA with Genghis Khan? no reviews | add a review
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"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. From the Neolithic revolution to the twenty-first century via the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the great nomadic empires of the Arabs and Mongols, the Mughals and the development of the Silk Road, nomads have been a perpetual counterbalance to the empires created by the power of human cities. Exploring the evolutionary biology and psychology of restlessness that makes us human, Anthony Sattin's sweeping history charts the power of nomadism from before the Bible to its decline in the present day. Connecting us to mythology and the records of antiquity, Nomads explains why we leave home, and why we like to return again. This is the history of civilization as told through its outsiders"-- No library descriptions found. |
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