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Article: Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia. (Mixed Media).(Book Review)
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- New Internationalist
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- June 1, 2003
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by Louisa Waugh (Abacus, ISBN 0-349-11580-X)
In 1997 Louisa Waugh moved from Ulaanbaatar to teach at a school in the remote mountainous village of Tsengel, near the border with Kazakhstan. Now she has turned her year in Tsengel into a book.
Readers may remember her Letters from Mongolia which appeared in the NI during that period. Given the space of a book she is able to convey just how well she got to know the people and the place: her friendships with nomadic Tuvans and Kazakhs; her experience of Mongolian winter, breaking ice and chopping wood; or just coping with fear, loneliness, herding goats and eating horsemeat.
Waugh brings a freshness ...