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Title Statement | The last nomad: coming of age in the Somali Desert : a memoir / Shugri Said Salh. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Coming of age in the Somali Desert, a memoir |
Author | Salh, Shugri Said, 1975- |
Publication | Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,2021. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 296 pages |
ISBN | 9781643750675 1643750674 |
Other Number | 3938357 |
Contents | Nomads -- Galkayo -- Ageless Desert Flower -- Carrying Out Tradition -- Orphanage -- The Outside World -- Beautiful Mogadishu -- Journey -- Goodbye, Mogadishu -- Garissa -- Nairobi -- The Promised Land. |
Summary | Shugri Said Salh's captivating journey from her idyllic childhood with her nomadic grandmother in the deserts of Somalia to her escape from her country's brutal civil war to Canada and eventually to America. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Women, Somali--Biography--United States |
Women, Somali--Biography--Canada | |
Refugees--Biography--Somalia--Mogadishu | |
Nomads--Biography--Somalia | |
By Name | Salh, Shugri Said,1975---Childhood and youth |
By Location | Somalia--Emigration and immigration |
Mogadishu (Somalia)--Biography |