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001 2015004476
003 DLC
005 20151010081647.0
008 150504s2015 nyua 000 0 eng
010 $a 2015004476
020 $a9781594632488 (hardback)
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050 00 $aDT530.5.F84$bB34 2015
082 00 $a305.896/322$223
084 $aBIO026000$aBIO002000$aSOC002010$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBadkhen, Anna,$d1976-
245 10 $aWalking with Abel :$bjourneys with the nomads of the African savannah /$cAnna Badkhen.
264 1 $aNew York, New York :$bRiverhead Books,$c2015.
300 $a309 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"An intrepid journalist joins the planet's largest group of nomads on an annual migration that, like them, has endured for centuries. Anna Badkhen has forged a career chronicling life in extremis around the world, from war-torn Afghanistan to the border regions of the American Southwest. In Walking with Abel, she embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys--nomadic herders in Mali's Sahel grasslands--as they embark on their annual migration across the savanna. It's a cycle that connects the Fulani to their past even as their present is increasingly under threat--from Islamic militants, climate change, and the ever-encroaching urbanization that lures away their young. The Fulani, though, are no strangers to uncertainty--brilliantly resourceful and resilient, they've contended with famines, droughts, and wars for centuries. Dubbed "Anna Ba" by the nomads, who embrace her as one of theirs, Badkhen narrates the Fulani's journeys and her own with compassion and keen observation, transporting us from the Neolithic Sahara crisscrossed by rivers and abundant with wildlife to obelisk forests where the Fulani's Stone Age ancestors painted tributes to cattle. As they cross the Sahel, the savanna belt that stretches from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic, they accompany themselves with Fulani music they download to their cell phones and tales of herders and hustlers, griots and holy men, infused with the myths the Fulani tell themselves to ground their past, make sense of their identity, and safeguard their--our--future"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"An intrepid journalist joins the planet's largest group of nomads on an annual migration that, like them, has endured for centuries"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aFula (African people)$zSahel.
650 0 $aFula (African people)$zMali.
650 0 $aFula (African people)$xMigrations.
650 0 $aBadkhen, Anna,$d1976-$xTravel$zSahel.
600 10 $aBadkhen, Anna,$d1976-$xTravel$zMali.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781594632488.jpg