Includes many aspects of migration, including island peoples, nomads, pioneers, and explorers; their clothing and fashion, food migration, medicinal plants, and transportation technology; and language, belief systems, trade, visual and performing arts.
A paper covering trends in pastoral mobility, underlying causes of the loss of mobility, impacts, rationale for investment, and policy options and recommendations.
Information about the world's largest desert, whose 'size defies imagination: 3.3 million square miles or around 25 percent of Africa.' Includes information about human inhabitants, and the ecosystem (plants, animals, topography, rainfall). Also includes information about specific countries. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
