Описание: When author and journalist Christina Adams first heard that camel milk might help her son's autism symptoms, she started a journey that involved exploring foreign lands, enlisting the help of others to bring raw milk into the U.S., find scientific evidence for its benefits, and change the laws to allow human consumption of this elixir in the U.S. Along the way, she explored the lore and fascination of this magnificent animal throughout the world, including on Amish farms in America.
Her fascination began when a faraway doctor helped her "smuggle" the raw Bedouin camel's milk from the desert, and her autistic son got astonishingly better overnight. Determined to find a better way to provide the milk to her son, and possibly others, she started tracking down camels. At first, she was afraid of their large teeth, towering bodies and long necks. Yet their soft lips and sweet curiosity won her over. So did the quirky, intuitively gifted camel guardians who shared their animal knowledge.
Her deepening research showed the milk had further medical promise, and she became the first person to obtain federal government permission to import camel milk for autism. When Adams discovered that Amish people had started milking camels for other families, she wrote an article (Got Camel] Milk?) that went viral--and she became the center of a hidden global camel world, filled with people who've gone "camel crazy." Because camels fill many emotional roles for people--family member, health savior, science object, heritage or ego symbol, currency, pet or work animal--the human-camel bond is powerful.
Camel Crazy reveals how camels mean so much to people around the world. In every religion and country, from modern or traditional cultures, people are drawn to the amazing animals and their legendary healing milk. Christina discovered secretive Raika of Rajasthan whose lore says Lord Shiva made them camel caregivers; the tall Somalis who conduct their lives around camels; or the white-swathed Tuareg nomads with their famous jewelry and desert salt caravans; and Arab royals preserve the symbol of their desert heritage; and the Amish farmers who kept camels for milk. In every religion and country, from modern or traditional cultures, people are drawn to the amazing dromedaries and their legendary healing milk. With camels now the second-fastest growing livestock in the world (boosted by her work), Christina advises "cameleers" and speaks frequently at health, science, food, disability, and camel conferences around the globe.. She's been highlighted in a TED talk by a Rolex Award Laureate, helped change camel laws in India, given advice to the USDA and other food and agriculture regulators.
But what about the animals themselves? Camel pregnancy is hard to detect--is the mom's tail raised? How does the world's hardiest creature emerge a wet gray worm and become a fluffy white mischief-maker an hour after birth? Christina explains how camels' charming personalities contradict the myth of the bad-tempered "spitting" camel (hint-that's not spit). Even their sex lives are full of edgy drama. But their ability to maim or kill means they aren't for everyone (though they're rapidly becoming a backyard pet).
The demand for camel milk and Christina's unique expert knowledge is growing in the US and abroad. Her work is recognized by almost every leader in the fast-growing camel world, and now her groundbreaking book Camel Crazy offers a moving, joyous, and funny look at camel milk, "camel people," and the amazing creatures they adore.
