中文简介：

本书审视了世界各地七种当代游牧文化，及时洞察了将我们与祖先联系在一起的另一种生活方式。

本书插图精美，让我们了解到菲律宾的萨马巴约族，他们在海上漂泊数月，从未接触过陆地。发现亚马逊雨林中的雅诺马米人，他们与环境的联系影响着他们生活的各个方面。西伯利亚的涅涅特游牧民族追随驯鹿，穿越疾风，来到北极圈的边缘。

所有这些文化都面临着共同的压力和问题。政府希望他们定居并融入社会；当地居民对政府持怀疑态度；在竞争激烈的全球化世界里，自给自足的农业或畜牧业是行不通的。

本书为我们提供了一个及时的窗口，让我们了解更简单的生活方式，以及连接我们和遥远祖先的人类传统和文化。本书文笔优雅，图文并茂，帮助读者了解不断增长的游牧社会，并将吸引教育和礼品市场。

英文简介：

A beguiling look at seven contemporary nomadic cultures around the world, offering a timely insight into alternative ways of life that connect us to our ancestral roots.

A fascinating and beautiful survey of seven nomadic societies spread across the continents. With delicately beautiful illustrations bringing the material to life, we learn about the Sama Bajau, fishing nomads from the Philippines who spend months at sea without ever touching land. We discover the Yanomami peoples of the Amazon rainforest whose connection to their environment informs every aspect of their lives. The Nenet nomads of Siberia follow their reindeer through blasting winds to the very edge of the Arctic Circle.

All these cultures face common pressures and problems. Governments want them to settle down and assimilate; local populations view them with suspicion; subsistence farming or herding is not viable in a cut-throat globalised world.

This book offers a timely window on a simpler way of life, and on human traditions and cultures that connect us to our distant ancestors. Elegantly and respectfully written and illustrated, this book is a captivating contribution to the growing literature on nomadic societies, and will appeal to both the education and the gift markets.