Michael Benanav
Auteur de Men of Salt: Crossing the Sahara on the Caravan of White Gold
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Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals--And an Ancient Way of Life (2018) 20 exemplaires
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Michael Benanav is an American journalist and nomad at heart who attached himself to a family of Van Gurjars and followed them on a migration season. It's a remarkable way of life with no technology and everything done by hand, he says the 15 year girls have the strength of Olympians. Nevertheless when they settle in towns they become depressed and wish to return to a nomadic existence. The contrast with modernity is stark, as they migrate up mountain roads trucks fly by horns honking. This is interesting look at a not well known nomadic people who seem to be on the cusp of disappearing, Benanav has done them a great service and an entertaining read.… (plus d'informations)