Travel to Mongolia

Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia

Format: Paperback
Author: Louisa Waugh
ReleaseDate: 01 August, 2004
Publisher: Abacus
Rating:

Fascinating look at another culture
They work hard but enjoy their life. This book gives an inside look at how other people, nomads in Mongolia, live. Even in a small village, different ethnic groups stay apart and distrust each other. If you find this book interesting, you might also enjoy 'The Places In Between" by Rory Stewart. He's a young man from Scotland who treks through a remote section of the mountains in Afghanistan in 2002, after 911. Every little village he goes to gives him shelter and food. He does it in the winter and you keep thinking he is crazy and lucky not to die of cold. He meets a dog and does most of the trip with a dog-it almost feels like animal abuse-it's so hard on the dog and he never chose to be this crazy. .

Well done.
Simple and well written and most importantly captures the magic of the place and its people. 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. Thanks!.

teaching and learning in mongolia
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. At the moment I am fascinated by Mongolia so reading online reviews and surfing the web I thought this book to be a must. 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.

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