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Book Review of Desert Flower : The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad

Desert Flower : The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad
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This is an international Bestseler from "Glamour's 1998 woman of the year.

This is a book about Waris Dirie that ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. The book is very intense ard tells of her story to becoming a almost teen married, forced to be married, running away in the desert, being in a dead end life but finds her way into becoming a runway model.....true story.