Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis
This superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen, is Rageh Omer's favorite book on his native land. A grueling description of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0907871275
ISBN13:9780907871279
Release Date:November 1993
Publisher:Elan Press
Length:179 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
One of the most extraordinary books I have read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
this is a hasty review. If you want to know about life in very hard places and times where people live constantly on the border beetween life and death and to undersand how people survive, love, live and die in such places then read this book.
One of the best at understanding Somalia
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Though describing a bygone era in Somalia, this book has few peers when it comes to giving an up-close-and-personal view of the Somalis. Anyone wishing to understand how the US and United Nations came to get so mired in this Horn of Africa country should read this book--and note the lessons that that were never learned before the 1992-1993 humanitarian and military intervention there.
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