Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Once, argues the acclaimed travel writer Anthony Sattin, we were all nomads. The first part of his epic history tells how the adoption of agriculture in the Neolithic led people to abandon nomadism and settle in cities such as Babylon; the second explores the mobile empires of the Huns, the Mongols and the Yuan; while the third celebrates the lives and culture of todayâ€s surviving nomads.