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Waris Dirie 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. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.N. Desert Flower is her extraordinary story.
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Desert Flower, Waris Dirie
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Desert Flower
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Waris Dirie
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0688172377
- ISBN13
- 9780688172374
- Series
- The Flower of the Desert
- Tags
- True Stories, Biographies, Women, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Feminism, Great Britain, Africa, Adapted for Film, London, Escape, Based on True Events, Autobiographical Novels, Deserts, Female Circumcision, Somali Literature
- First published
- 1998
- Original title
- Desert Flower
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- Waris Dirie 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. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu—the first leg of a remarkable journey that would take her to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.N. Desert Flower is her extraordinary story.