Lost on Earth Nomads of the New World Author:Mark Fritz In LOST ON EART: NOMADS OF THE NEW WORLD, Pulizer Prize winning foreign correspondent Mark Fritz intimately tells the tale of an epic moment in history. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, millions of people have been forced to flee their homes and countries. The great migration has overwhelmed the United Nations, fo... more »rced the United States into distant wars, triggered tough new immigration laws, and laid the foundation for future conflicts. But LOST ON EARTH is more than recent history; through stunning journalism and expert analysis, Fritz leads us into the twilight world of contemporary refugees as they trek across landscapes that are continually being reshaped by the aftershocks of the end of the Cold War. Shedding light on the riveting human elements of this point in time, LOST ON EARTH explores a dimension beyond the nightly news footage. Abstract events around the globe are humanized by people like Herbert Puchwein, a detective from Vienna who rescues a busload of orphans pinned down in Sarajevo, and Senada Suljic, whose family, driven from their Bosnian home, pray that their paths will cross again someday. This is the story of a bored East German girl who slips into a forest one day and finds a magical land on the other side; an engineer from Liberia who watches as this neatly constructed life is dismantled by war; a jaded, wandering nurse from Ohio who drifts from emergency room to emergency room, hooked on adrenaline until overdosing on it in Somalia. And a college student who books the ultimate adventure tour - joining the war to recapture the land that exiled him when he was an infant. Investigating the forces at play in the world, and with compassionate insight into the human will to survive, Fritz shows us where these refugees come from, why they flee, and what they encounter during their journeys. Filled with terror and adventure, tragedy and inspiration, LOST ON EART: NOMADS OF THE NEW WORLD is a remarkable account of the exodus that will affect us all for generations to come.« less