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Desert children / Waris Dirie, with Corinna Milborn ; translated by Sheelagh Alabaster.
Penn Museum Library GN484 .D57 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dirie, Waris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Female genital mutilation--Europe.
- Female genital mutilation.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- x, 237 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Virago, 2005.
- Summary:
- U.N. Special Ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born to a family of tribal nomads in Somalia. She told her story--"enduring female circumcision, fleeing through the desert, and, improbably, becoming a top model--"in her first book,
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1844082520
- OCLC:
- 61441201
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