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Salh, Shugri Said, 1975-

The last nomad : coming of age in the Somali Desert, a memoir / Coming of age in the Somali Desert, a memoir Shugri Said Salh. - First edition. - 296 pages ; 22 cm

Nomads -- Galkayo -- Ageless Desert Flower -- Carrying Out Tradition -- Orphanage -- The Outside World -- Beautiful Mogadishu -- Journey -- Goodbye, Mogadishu -- Garissa -- Nairobi -- The Promised Land.

"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"--

ISBN: 9781643750675 1643750674

LCCN: 2021000501

Subjects--Personal Names:
Salh, Shugri Said, 1975- --Childhood and youth.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Nomads--Somalia--Biography.
Refugees--Somalia--Mogadishu--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mogadishu (Somalia)--Biography.
Somalia--Emigration and immigration

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Autobiographies

LC Class. No.: DT407.3.S25 / A3 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 967.7305/3092 B