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Desert Children by Waris Dirie
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
* From the bestselling author of DESERT FLOWER and DESERT DAWN comes a new book. Waris Dirie reveals the shocking truth of FGM happening to thousands of young girls throughout Europe
Desert Children by Waris Dirie with Corinna Milborn (tr Sheelagh Alabaster)
29.99 NZD
34.99 (14% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia . She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five years old; running away through the desert; being discovered by Terence Donovan and becoming a top fashion model - in her ...Show more
Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie & Jean d'Haem
22.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
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 ...Show more
Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
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 ...Show more
Desert Dawn by Waris Dirie
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie is a remarkable woman, 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 twelve on foot through the des ...Show more
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Waris Dirie, whose name means "desert flower", was born in Somalia of nomadic parents. She underwent extreme female circumcision at the age of five, and when she was 13 her father sold her into marriage with a 60-year-old for five camels, at which time she ran away. She was discovered by a fashion photo ...Show more
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Desert Flower is the compelling autobiography of supermodel Waris Dirie, born into a traditional Somali family of nomads who believed in such archaic customs as female genital mutilation and arranged marriages between prepubescent girls and elderly men, for a dowry of a few goats and camels." "The youn ...Show more
Desert Flower and Desert Dawn - Waris Dirie Omnibus by Waris Dirie
38.99 NZD
39.99 (2% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a combined volume called Waris Dirie Omnibus which contains Desert Flower and Desert Children. Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five years old; runnin ...Show more
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM by Waris Dirie
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower. The book was subsequently made into a film and little Safa Nour, from one of the slums of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, was ch ...Show more
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