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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | After two years of working in the capital of Mongolia, journalist Louisa Waugh moved to the remote village of Tsengel, in the extreme west of the country. This is the story of the year she spent there, living and working with the people who have made a home in the stark but beautiful landscape. The villagers and their culture vividly emerge as she shares her happiness, frustrations, and occasional extreme loneliness and fear. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Louisa Waugh | | Paperback: | 270 pages | | Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group | | Publication Date: | January 01, 2003 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 034911580X | | Product Length: | 1.0 inches | | Product Width: | 5.0 inches | | Product Height: | 7.75 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.51 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.56 inches | | Package Width: | 4.96 inches | | Package Height: | 0.87 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.53 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 16 reviews |
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24 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 Capturing the spirit of Mongolian women Nov 11, 2004
By Amy Thomson
"Amy Thomson"
Mongolia is the kind of place that captures the imagination. So big, so cold, so remote. I have had the incredible good fortune to travel there myself. Louisa Waugh does an exceptional job of evoking a sense of the remote village where she lived, and the tough, resourceful people who teach her to survive. There are other writers who have done this, but Waugh has captured the spirit of Mongolian women better than any other writer on the subject. This is a marvelous, beautiful book that makes me miss Mongolia all over again.
17 of 19 found the following review helpful:
The Spirit of Place Jun 04, 2004
By mdo
This book gave me an intense experience of Tsengel, a village of a few thousand on the farthest western edge of Mongolia. I loved spending four seasons there with Louisa Waugh. The author won the first Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize for a work of fiction or non-fiction (this is non-fiction) "evoking the spirit of a place". Waugh has done this superbly. The reader is there with her so fully because she has added her own joys and hardships of that year in Tsengel without a hint of solipsism. She is a generous woman and a generous author. Reading this boook is a great experience.
16 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Well done. Aug 31, 2006
By A. Galperin
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. Simple and well written and most importantly captures the magic of the place and its people. Thanks!
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
teaching and learning in mongolia May 13, 2006
By Magalini Sabina
"sabina"
At the moment I am fascinated by Mongolia so reading online reviews and surfing the web I thought this book to be a must. 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. 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.
10 of 13 found the following review helpful:
great MONGOLIAN LIFE! Mar 28, 2005
By Amazon Queen
could not put book down... really helped to understand 'the mongolian way'..... a keeper!
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