Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah - Hardcover

Anna Badkhen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594632480 ISBN 13: 9781594632488

Publisher: Riverhead, 2015

Synopsis

The Fulani are the largest surviving group of nomads on the planet. In Walking With Abel, Anna Badkhen embeds herself with a family of Fulani cowboys in Mali, experiencing first-hand a way of life that has endured for centuries. Dubbing her Anna Ba and embracing her as one of their own, the nomads take her along as they embark on their annual migration across the West African Sahel, herding their cattle from their dry season camp to their rainy season camp and back. Badkhen narrates her hosts' journeys, and her own, with compassion and keen observation.

About this title

Review:

"Badkhen is a bad-ass foreign correspondent. She's travelled through northern Afghanistan, by taxi and by donkey, and walked African deserts with Fulani herders." --Buzzfeed

About the Author:

Anna Badkhen has written about wars on four continents, including the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and Chechnya. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, and other publications. She is the author, most recently, of The World is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village and Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah.Badkhen lives in Philadelphia."

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1594632480
• ISBN 13: 9781594632488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320