'A revisionist view of nomads, seeing them as catalysts for change and symbiotically linked to settled communities rather than as primitive, barbaric outsiders to be tamed, exterminated or converted. A vast, wide-ranging topic which was fun to read, although as you would expect there is much concentration on central Asia and sources are very sparse other than what settled communities thought or their nomadic contemporaries, which is hardly objective. William and I are going away camping with the cubs tomorrow, we really should get packing. Helen is off at Wimbledon today though and we are all going to Fred's school this evening to watch a DofE presentation
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