" We can either write history as a way of placing our own values and prejudice is at the center of every picture, or we can choose to allow for what sometimes is referred to as the “nomadic alternative”—a term politely coined by some recent researchers to celebrate their growing realization that nomadic people might have had some sound reasons for wanting to live their own life in their own way…. "

― Peter Kingsley , A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World