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  • "It's not much fun," Haggard says of this nomad's life, a career the beleaguered country legend once described as "a 35-year bus ride."

    For Merle Haggard, music is a life sentence Chris Richards 2010

  • His name was Yundun, and while he handed out pamphlets offering horse rides into the grasslands (or you can stay overnight in a nomad's tent, for more), he complained about the very touristification of Tagong that he was ostensibly part of.

    Alec Ash: From Lhasa to Shangri La: the Touristification of Tibet 2010

  • The nomad's plea inspired renewed resistance to China's control in Lithang, which resulted in the harshest crackdown the region had seen in decades.

    Rebecca Novick: The Speech That Portended the Tibetan Uprising Made Public 2010

  • His name was Yundun, and while he handed out pamphlets offering horse rides into the grasslands (or you can stay overnight in a nomad's tent, for more), he complained about the very touristification of Tagong that he was ostensibly part of.

    From Lhasa to Shangri La: the Touristification of Tibet 2010

  • From here to the north, in the east of the land of snow, Is a country where divine thunder spontaneously blazes In a beautiful nomad's place with the sign of a cow ...

    The Day Of The Living Buddhas 2008

  • From here to the north, in the east of the land of snow, Is a country where divine thunder spontaneously blazes In a beautiful nomad's place with the sign of a cow ...

    The Day Of The Living Buddhas 2008

  • I'm enticed by the tour he proposes: we'll drive a little ways into the desert in a Land Rover, travel farther by camel, and eventually spend the night in a nomad's tent.

    'My Mercedes is Not for Sale' 2008

  • When approaching a traditional nomad's ger, the correct greeting is "Nokhoi khor," which literally means "hold the dog."

    Bill Heavey Chases Mongolian Taimen (with Prairie Dogs as Bait) 2004

  • With the touch of a magician's wand the interior of our plane transformed itself into an Arab nomad's tent.

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • With the touch of a magician's wand the interior of our plane transformed itself into an Arab nomad's tent.

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

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