- Publisher: John Murray
- Year: 2023
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 196x127mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781473677890
- Product code: 538726
Nomads
The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World
Anthony Sattin New Paperback Illustrated
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Once, argues the acclaimed travel writer Anthony Sattin, we were all nomads. The first part of his epic history tells how the adoption of agriculture in the Neolithic led people to abandon nomadism and settle in cities such as Babylon; the second explores the mobile empires of the Huns, the Mongols and the Yuan; while the third celebrates the lives and culture of today’s surviving nomads.
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A Spectator Book of the Year
'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary Review
'A terrific storyteller' New York Times
'Exceptional . . . tender and beautifully written' Country Life
The groundbreaking story of Nomadic peoples on the move across history.
Tracing the epic paths of wanderers across twelve thousand years, acclaimed travel writer Anthony Sattin recovers the stories of tribes who lived beyond imperial borders and created their own kingdoms and empires: Scythian, Xiongnu, Persian, Hun, Arab, Mongul, Mughal, Ottoman and others. With their embrace of multiculturalism, respect for nature's rhythms, and need for free movement, wandering peoples brought a glorious cultural flourishing to Eurasia, enabling the Renaissance and changing the human story. This sweeping narrative reconnects us with our deepest mythology, our unrecorded antiquity and our natural world. Nomads is the untold history of civilisation, told through its outsiders.
'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary Review
'A terrific storyteller' New York Times
'Exceptional . . . tender and beautifully written' Country Life
The groundbreaking story of Nomadic peoples on the move across history.
Tracing the epic paths of wanderers across twelve thousand years, acclaimed travel writer Anthony Sattin recovers the stories of tribes who lived beyond imperial borders and created their own kingdoms and empires: Scythian, Xiongnu, Persian, Hun, Arab, Mongul, Mughal, Ottoman and others. With their embrace of multiculturalism, respect for nature's rhythms, and need for free movement, wandering peoples brought a glorious cultural flourishing to Eurasia, enabling the Renaissance and changing the human story. This sweeping narrative reconnects us with our deepest mythology, our unrecorded antiquity and our natural world. Nomads is the untold history of civilisation, told through its outsiders.
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Once, argues the acclaimed travel writer Anthony Sattin, we were all nomads. The first part of his epic history tells how the adoption of agriculture in the Neolithic led people to abandon nomadism and settle in cities such as Babylon; the second explores the mobile empires of the Huns, the Mongols and the Yuan; while the third celebrates the lives and culture of today’s surviving nomads.
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