Liza F. Carter

Liza F. Carter, scientist, and photographer, is passionate about documenting the traditional Mongolian nomadic herding way of life before it is obliterated by the modern world and climate change. Half the profits from this book are being donated to provide medical care for nomadic children. Moving with the Seasons draws on the author’s experience with a single family to reveal the unique culture of Mongolian nomads and their remarkable capacity to thrive in one of 
the world’s harshest environments. The family’s willingness to share with the rest of the world the annual cycle of nomadic life on the Mongolian steppe makes for an unusually intimate portrait. Much of the information found in the text and photographs comes directly from time spent with this family, and is not available in print elsewhere. Readers will be engaged not only by the differences of culture that is revealed, but also by the suspense, humor, and pathos of the situations the author describes. Moving with the Seasons is both timely in its appeal to the growing awareness in the West that we have a lot to learn from traditional peoples before their ways of life disappear, and timeless in its representation of humanity.