New Wind in a Dry Land Author:Margaret Laurence When Margaret Laurence's husband, a civil engineer, was hired to create a chain of artificial lakes in the deserts of Somaliland, she set out with him to a district of Africa that few women had ever visited before and that exists almost unchanged as it has for a thousand years. In these pages, she tells of her getting to know of the nomadic, ca... more »mel-herding Somalis and of the respect she gained for these desert people whose life is an incessant struggle for survival in a barren land.« less