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 Knowledgeble August 8, 2008
Knowledgeable writer who shares her experiences in Western Mongolia. I enjoyed her story and learned about Mongolian life..
Outstanding February 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My husband is a Mongolian-American and I was so amazed to find how the customs have carried over to the community here. Great book. Well written.
Living with nomads December 30, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Louisa Waugh went to live in a village in western Mongolia, to teach English, where she learned more than she thought she would. She learned about religion, lush summers, dusts storms, hard winters, loneliness, fear, happiness, yummy horse meat and dealing with death. For all the information in the book it reads pretty swiftly and I finished it within a couple of days, when not working, sleeping or eating. It really is a hard book to put down and a lovely one to add to my library of Asian books. I really felt sorry for her sometimes.
a great book on a radically different culture October 10, 2007
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This is a book by a woman, who goes to Mongolia, discovers how much she likes the country and then goes back to it years later, lives there for two years, then teaches in a remote village of nomads. the book is about her time spent in the village of nomads teaching them English. she describes life in the village and the people there and how it was for a foriegner, who grew up in London, to be totally surrounded by such a foreign and alien environment. very good read. i highly recommend it.
 Fascinating look at another culture January 16, 2007
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This book gives an inside look at how other people, nomads in Mongolia, live. They work hard but enjoy their life. Even in a small village, different ethnic groups stay apart and distrust each other. If you find this book interesting, you might also enjoy 'The Places In Between" by Rory Stewart. He's a young man from Scotland who treks through a remote section of the mountains in Afghanistan in 2002, after 911. Every little village he goes to gives him shelter and food. He does it in the winter and you keep thinking he is crazy and lucky not to die of cold. He meets a dog and does most of the trip with a dog-it almost feels like animal abuse-it's so hard on the dog and he never chose to be this crazy.
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