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

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781643750675
  • ISBN: 1643750674
  • Physical Description: 296 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2021]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Nomads -- Galkayo -- Ageless Desert Flower -- Carrying Out Tradition -- Orphanage -- The Outside World -- Beautiful Mogadishu -- Journey -- Goodbye, Mogadishu -- Garissa -- Nairobi -- The Promised Land.
Subject: Salh, Shugri Said, 1975- > Childhood and youth.
Nomads > Somalia > Biography.
Mogadishu (Somalia) > Biography.
Somalia > Emigration and immigration.
Refugees > Somalia > Mogadishu > Biography.
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at SPARK Libraries.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Altoona Area Public Library 967.7305 SAL (Text) 33240004952845 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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