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Nomads - The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
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Nomads - The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
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A Sunday Times Best History Book of the Year A Spectator Book of
the Year 'A book of beauty and beguiling rhythm that offers
unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders' The
Times 'Thoughtful, lyrical yet ambitiously panoramic . . . an
important, generous and beautifully-written book' William Dalrymple
The ground-breaking story of Nomadic peoples on the move across
history. Humans have been on the move for most of history. Even
after the great urban advancement lured people into the great
cities of Uruk, Babylon, Rome and Chang'an, most of us continued to
live lightly on the move and outside the pages of history. But
recent discoveries have revealed another story . . . Wandering
people built the first great stone monuments, such as the one at
Goebekli Tepe, seven thousand years before the pyramids. They tamed
the horse, fashioned the composite bow, fought with the Greeks and
hastened the end of the Roman Empire. They had a love of poetry and
storytelling, a fascination for artistry and science, and a respect
for the natural world rooted in reliance and their belief.
Embracing multiculturalism, tolerant of other religions, their need
for free movement and open markets brought a glorious cultural
flourishing to Eurasia, enabling the Renaissance and changing the
human story. Reconnecting with our deepest mythology, our
unrecorded antiquity and our natural environment, Nomads is the
untold history of civilisation, told through its outsiders.
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