When we trace the development of human history, nomads are often portrayed in movies and elsewhere partly as primitive people and partly as wandering drifters. After reading this book, though, I realized we should look at nomads differently. The author’s carefully chosen material and strong storytelling kept the subject engaging. Our basic education teaches us that humanity emerged long ago, moved from hunting and gathering to agriculture, formed communities and early states, and then developed

It was an engaging book that traces the footsteps of nomads omitted from the victors’ records and highlights asabiyyah as another part of human DNA. I feel that in my youth, too, my way of life was closer to that of nomads than to that of settled people.

‘Nomads have cultivated their relationship with the natural world because they recognized that everything is interconnected and interdependent.’ —From the introduction. Looking at human history and development, nothing is more overwhelming than war. Human history is so long that it is hard to explain it without war. Before the word nation existed, many peoples did not settle in one place but moved among regions. Without borders, this way of life was natural at the time, and I wonder whether

📚 Anthony Sattin, Nomads. When I first saw the title, I thought of Nomadland by Jessica Bruder, which I read a few years ago. A film was also made based on that book. Of course, Sattin’s Nomads, which spans history, and Bruder’s Nomadland, which looks at people’s lives in the 21st century and beyond, are different in character. But perhaps they are not entirely different, if we take Leonard Cohen’s line, ‘There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in’ (the sentence that appears

‘From the hidden side of a wandering world history.’ I thought I knew world history after studying it in high school and reading quite a few related books, but this book differed from everything I had known. I had at least heard of the Huns, Genghis Khan, and Timur, who were demonized by European settlers or left their mark as empires. But I had never properly encountered the stories of nomadic peoples around the world, from Europe and Africa to the Americas, whose traces must be followed

I’ve fallen into the same daily routine since taking a leave of absence from school. I eat a simple breakfast and go to my part-time job. When work ends, I go to the gym. After that, I rest at home or meet someone. Day after day, six months have already passed in Hoegi without my taking even one trip. I don’t particularly like traveling. The post-trip blues have always been a problem. After returning from a trip, everyday life feels unfamiliar again. It feels as if a tower I carefully built has

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Crossed Civilizations, Half of History Made by Nomadic Peoples — Anthony Sattin, Kkachibooks. History, history book, recommended history book, nomads, Kkachibooks supporter... There are things that become part of history and things that are not recorded as history. Judgments depend on historical emphasis or perspective, and what we believe to be history is probably records accumulated through settlement. So how were those who did not settle recorded in history? To