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Title: Difficult but Worth It
Review: This book is absolutely complete and authoritative. It exhaustively covers the subject and is a panoramic history of the power of the nomadic peoples for over 2000 years until the sedentary world overtook them. I read it 20 years ago and still remember it with pleasure.Two caveats, however: (1)Unless you can read it in a shorter time than most of us can afford, the interleaving of the book in geographical (rather than time) segments mean you have to have either a very good memory or a notepad, and (2)The translator did his work with a very academic tone. (I remember the use of the word "autochtonous" rather than "native" in one spot.)Not an easy read, but worth the trouble.
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