Nomads

The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

By: Anthony Sattin

Narrated by: Anthony Sattin

The remarkable story of how nomads have fostered and refreshed civilization throughout our history.

Moving across millennia, Nomads explores the transformative and often bloody relationship between settled and mobile societies. The story of the shifting, umbilical connections between these two very different ways of living presents a radical new view of human civilization. From the Neolithic revolution to the twenty-first century via some of the lesser-known Eurasian steppe cultures, the great nomad empires of the Persians, Arabs, Mongols, and Mughals, as well as the mobile native North American peoples, nomads have been a perpetual counterbalance to the power of the settled and their cities.

Exploring evolutionary biology and the psychology of restlessness that makes us human, Anthony Sattin's sweeping history charts the power of nomadism from before the Bible to its decline in the present day. Connecting us to mythology and the records of antiquity, Nomads explains why we leave home, and why we like to return again. This is the groundbreaking history of civilization as told through its outsiders.

©2022 Anthony Sattin (P)2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Alternative understanding of history and what it might mean for civilization . Well written and spoken.

Skopykatz
Alternative understanding of historical records. Expanded my thinking into areas never considered. Well written and author’s narration excellent.

In depth background of a neglected part of our history.

Brilliantly researched. As a bookstore owner, perhaps one of the best books I have ever read.

The Other Side of History

A while ago I heard the author on an episode of "Travels With Rick Steves." It was an interesting conversation and I knew I had to check this book out. It did not disappoint. For much of known history, there were the settled and the unsettled, those who lived in settlements and cities, and those who wandered. The latter group, the nomads, has a history that is largely unknown, forgotten, and certainly undocumented. Their contribution to history and the modern world has been large, but we'll never know how much. Sattin does a solid job tracking some of these groups and their influences.
Well narrated by the author and definitely recommend reading this book.

Fascinating

Was a lot to absorb but it’s an unforgettable lesson in history. I admire the author and his views. Thank you.

Goes from interesting history in the first two parts to simply the author’s philosophy in the third part.

It was refreshing to hear the history of nomadic empires in a voice other than European establishments.