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Warri and Yatungka have been referred to as "star-crossed lovers" by the press, who saw their story as Romeo and Juliet-like.[3] [5] [7] [8] [9]Peasley's The Last of the Nomads (published 1983) is an international best-selling non-fiction book that documents the life of Warri and Yatungka.
Grant's first book American Nomads (2003, UK: Ghost Riders) looks at nomadism and people who choose to live on the road in America. [1] It won the 2004 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award . [ 1 ] Grant wrote the script for a BBC documentary called American Nomads , based in part on the book, which aired in the fall of 2011.
The group roamed between waterholes near Lake Mackay, near the Western Australia-Northern Territory border, wearing hairstring belts and armed with two-metre-long (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) wooden spears and spear throwers, and intricately carved boomerangs. Their diet was dominated by goanna and rabbit as well as bush food native plants. The group was a ...
In 2050, sometime after a nuclear war, much of the ruling elite has succumbed to a disease that requires a transfusion of blood. Bands of militaristic, government-sanctioned band of nomads called the Warriors, led by the Baalca, forcibly use needles to extract healthy blood from unwilling females and deliver it to the rulers.
Last of the Amazons is a 2002 novel by Steven Pressfield that recounts the legend of Theseus and the Amazons, set before the threshold of recorded history, a generation before the Trojan War. The novel's theme is the conflict between the nascent Greek civilization and the savage but free Amazons of the Eastern steppes, between men and women ...
Chandler and his charismatic girlfriend Kayla (Ciara Bravo) give John a taste for “off-books operations,” risking their lives air-dropping Bibles on potential converts.
The Last of the Just is a post-war novel by André Schwarz-Bart originally published in French (as Le Dernier des justes) in 1959. It was published in an English translation by Stephen Becker in 1960. The debut novel of Schwarz-Bart, it won the Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary prize. [1]
The renaming of the titular resort is an ode to Dali, a city of 774,000 in southwestern China that over the last three years has become a refuge for digital nomads and burned-out workers seeking a ...