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Author Salh, Shugri Said, 1975- author.

Title The last nomad : coming of age in the Somali Desert : a memoir / Shugri Said Salh.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.

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Location Call No. Status
 GDL Central Library Non-Fiction    92 Salh,S SAL    Available
 GDL Central Library Non-Fiction    92 Salh,S SAL    Available
1 copy being processed for GDL Central Library Non-Fiction.
1 copy being processed for GDL Montrose Library Non-Fiction.
Edition First edition.
Description 296 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents Nomads -- Galkayo -- Ageless Desert Flower -- Carrying Out Tradition -- Orphanage -- The Outside World -- Beautiful Mogadishu -- Journey -- Goodbye, Mogadishu -- Garissa -- Nairobi -- The Promised Land.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Salh, Shugri Said, 1975- -- Childhood and youth.
Nomads -- Somalia -- Biography.
Mogadishu (Somalia) -- Biography.
Somalia -- Emigration and immigration.
Refugees -- Somalia -- Mogadishu -- Biography.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Added Title Coming of age in the Somali Desert : a memoir
ISBN 9781643750675 hardcover
1643750674 hardcover

 
    
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