Nomads
- Author Anthony Sattin
- Narrator Anthony Sattin
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 11 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre General and world history, Social and cultural anthropology.
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What to expect
Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. Often overlooked in history, the story of the umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilisation. From the Neolithic revolution to the 21st century via the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the great nomadic empires of the Arabs and Mongols, the Mughals and the development of the Silk Road, nomads have been a perpetual counterbalance to the empires created by the power of human cities.
Exploring the evolutionary biology and psychology of restlessness that makes us human, Anthony Sattin's sweeping history charts the power of nomadism from before the Bible, to its decline in the present day. Connecting us to mythology and the records of antiquity, Nomads explains why we leave home, and why we like to return again. This is the history of civilisation as told through its outsiders.
(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Critics Review
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In a book of sensitivity and grace, Sattin does not just describe the nomadic way of life, but also evokes it . . . This is 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 . . . As fleet and light-footed as its subject, it takes us along a dizzying path, over many of the highest ridges of human history . . . An important, generous and beautifully-written book
William Dalrymple, author of 'The Anarchy' -
A terrific storyteller
New York Times -
A fabulous piece of evocative writing, mixing personal stories with an epic sweep of history, the unique insight of location and an intimate connection to the subject. I loved it
Jerry Brotton, author of 'A History of the World in Twelve Maps' -
Anthony Sattin’s Nomads spreads before us a sweeping panorama of nomadism
Colin Thubron, author of 'Shadow of the Silk Road'
that resonates through the past and echoes poignantly even in the present -
I was riveted by the shifts to nomadic culture, Sapiens-like, and by the feeling of learning lightly worn and deftly transmitted. This is a major book
Roland Philipps, author of 'A Spy Named Orphan'
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