Fascinating.

A rather ethereal travel writer.

Nomads delivers good stories, and Mr. Sattin makes a fair case for the outsiders, the unsettled, but his wandering folk are a very mixed bag.

A kind of rhapsody on how this aspect of human nature has contributed as much, if not more, to civilization, than the tillers of the soil.

Detailed.

Brimming with literary, historical, and anthropological references, Sattin’s book makes a splendid rejoinder—and without its fictions—to Bruce Chatwin’s now-classic book The Songlines.

Insightful.