Desert flower the extraordinary journey of a desert nomad

By:

DIRIE, Waris Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller

Contributor(s):

MILLER, Cathleen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Virago 1999Description: 369 S., IllISBN:

1860497497

Subject(s):

Summary: Waris Dirie's story puts "rags to riches" to shame. The "Desert Flower" started life as one of 12 children of a Somali nomad family, a people with no written culture, where the basic unit of currency is the camel. Faced at 12 with the prospect of marriage to a 60-year-old man she didn't know, she broke all the rules and ran away, surviving a traumatic trek across the desert to end up in London, as a maid to the Somalian Ambassador. It was in McDonalds that her striking beauty was "discovered", leading to a career in modelling and another as an ardent campaigner against female genital mutilation (circumcision).

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Bücher	Schulbibliothek BSZ Mistelbach ZSB	Fremdsprachige Literatur	FS.E DIR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		10084434

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Waris Dirie's story puts "rags to riches" to shame. The "Desert Flower" started life as one of 12 children of a Somali nomad family, a people with no written culture, where the basic unit of currency is the camel. Faced at 12 with the prospect of marriage to a 60-year-old man she didn't know, she broke all the rules and ran away, surviving a traumatic trek across the desert to end up in London, as a maid to the Somalian Ambassador. It was in McDonalds that her striking beauty was "discovered", leading to a career in modelling and another as an ardent campaigner against female genital mutilation (circumcision).

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