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Desert dawn / Waris Dirie and Jeanne D'Haem.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Virago, 2002.Description: 226 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1860498531 (pbk.)
  • 1860499627 (pbk.)
  • 9781844080083 (pbk.)
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Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Biographies Davis (Central) Library Biographies Biographies B DIR 1 Available T00604981
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born into a traditional family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring, at five years old, the ancient and savage custom of female circumcision; running away at 12 on foot through the desert in order to escape an arranged marriage; being discovered by Terence Donovan as she worked as a cleaner in London; and becoming a top fashion model - in her book, Desert Flower. Although Waris Dirie fled her homeland, she never forgot the country and culture that moulded her. The world of famine and violence, where women have no voice and no place - the very world that nearly destroyed her also gave her the tools to survive.

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