Alexandra Fuller
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Alexandra Fuller is a British-Zimbabwean author. Her articles and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, The Guardian and The Financial Times.
Fuller in 2008
Yurt
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A yurt or ger is a portable, round tent covered and insulated with skins or felt and traditionally used as a dwelling by several distinct nomadic groups in the steppes and mountains of Inner Asia. The
Alexandra Fuller
…in 2012. They had two daughters and one son together. Their son, Fi, died in his sleep at the age of 21. She currently spends much of her time in a yurt near Jackson, Wyoming. Her first book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, published in 2001, is a memoir of life with her family living in southern…
A traditional Kyrgyz yurt
A Karakalpak bentwood type "yourte" in Khwarezm (or Karakalpakstan), Uzbekistan
Turkmen woman at the entrance to a yurt in Turkestan; 1913 picture by Prokudin-Gorsky
Yurt of Kazakhs in the Tian Shan, 200 km northeast of Urumqi at 2100 m a.s.l., August 1991