'This book is exceptional not only for the new perspectives it gives on nomads, but for the out-of-the-box thinking which Nick McDonell applies throughout the text ... reading this book is an exercise in critical thinking.'
The Jordan Times
'Nick McDonell tackles one of the great blind spots of political science: the persistence of nomadism in the contemporary ... Read moreworld. Nomads are not, McDonell shows, a relict of an earlier era of societal development, but a thoroughly modern challenge to contemporary governance.'
Alex de Waal, Research Professor and Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation, Tufts University
'In this intriguing, unusual and well-written little book, McDonell shares his frustrations with the political difficulties faced by nomadic peoples in the twenty-first century and the failure of international relations theory to comprehend nomads' lived realities. He describes in detail several instances of the unequal and often tragic clash between the "civilisation of perpetual movement" and that of tax-gathering, boundary-jealous, rule-bound, development-oriented states.'

Richard Tapper, Emeritus Professor at SOAS, University of London, and author of many books and articles on nomadism including Frontier Nomads of Iran
'Since he was a graduate student at Oxford, Nick McDonell has studied the question of how important nomadism has been to world history for the past 500 years. Very, is the answer. This well-written and extremely accessible book is an account of that journey.'
Dawn Chatty, Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration and formerly Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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