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 enlarge | Author: Louisa Waugh
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 93209
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 270
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 034911580X
Dewey Decimal Number: 915
EAN: 9780349115801
ASIN: 034911580X
Publication Date: January 1, 2003
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 Well done. September 1, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Nice book - for once a travel author who isn't full of her (him)self and bores us with the difficulties of adaptating to a different culture or who has to show off her/ his magnificent sense of humor. Simple and well written and most importantly captures the magic of the place and its people. Thanks!
teaching and learning in mongolia May 14, 2006
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
At the moment I am fascinated by Mongolia so reading online reviews and surfing the web I thought this book to be a must. It actually is! Louisa Waugh is a modern Margaret Mead, she tries living in this remote mongolian village participating to the life, but without interfering and without judging, and when that happens she underlines and regrets it. Can this book be called a work of modern anthropology? It goes near to it. I would have liked a more detailed description of the population and the ethnic differences between the Kazakhs and the Tuvans, but that would have made this book a textbook of social studies, which it really doesn't want to be. The simplicity and modesty of this unusual life experience is touching. The author talks about herself (very little)and mostly about the other women she meets. The Prize the book won is extremely appropriate because the spirit of the place is really the book's main character.
 great MONGOLIAN LIFE! March 29, 2005
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
could not put book down... really helped to understand 'the mongolian way'..... a keeper!
Capturing the spirit of Mongolian women November 11, 2004
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Mongolia is the kind of place that captures the imagination. So big, so cold, so remote. I have had the incredible good fortune to travel there myself. Louisa Waugh does an exceptional job of evoking a sense of the remote village where she lived, and the tough, resourceful people who teach her to survive. There are other writers who have done this, but Waugh has captured the spirit of Mongolian women better than any other writer on the subject. This is a marvelous, beautiful book that makes me miss Mongolia all over again.
All the ups and downs of a rugged, isolated lifestyle July 9, 2004
8 out of 14 found this review helpful
Author Louisa Waugh moved to a remote village in Mongolia after two years working in the country's capitol: HEARING BIRDS FLY is the first-person account of the year she spent living with the villagers. From the hardships of a dark Mongolian winter into a lush summer and nomadic existence, Waugh's story captures all the ups and downs of a rugged, isolated lifestyle.
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