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Desert flower the extraordinary journey of a desert nomad /

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  • Author: DIRIE, Waris
    Contributor: Castledine, Jocelyn; Weitzmann, Michael
    Date:
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    2000
    Summary:

    Waris ran away from her desert nomad family at the age of 12 when her father arranged her marriage to a sixty-year-old stranger in exchange for five camels. She escaped through the harsh Somalian desert and travelled to London.

    Subject(s): Biography | Women social reformers --Somalia --Biography | Women’s rights --Somalia
    Original Publisher: London : Virago, 1999, Victoria Park, W.A., Association for the Blind of W.A.
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 0688158234