Join us Tuesday, July 2nd at 4:00 PM in the American Corner in the Ulaanbaatar City Library for a special ACMS Speaker Series and Book-Launch / Signing event for the release of the book “Camel Crazy: A Quest for Miracles in the Mysterious World of Camels” By Christina Adams. The event will feature a brief public talk by Christina Adams about her work with Camels, and a short video presentation. Copies of the book will be available on had for ₮35,000 and Ms. Adams will be available to sign copies of the book.
Christina Adams is a writer, researcher and globally known expert in autism and camels. She is the author of Camel Crazy: A Quest for Miracles in the Mysterious World of Camels, which won a Nautilus Book Award, and A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention and Recovery. She has an MFA and her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, NPR, Open Democracy, Rajasthan Patrika, Global Advances in Health and Medicine, the US Public Library of Science DNA blog and many more. She has a show on Autism Live and has been featured on US, Indian, Middle Eastern and European television shows and media, She has won international awards for her work, including the Dr V. Kurien Award of Excellence in Dairy Farming Practices and Innovation and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sri Ram Singh Memorial Animal Welfare Award. She lectures internationally and advises scientists, veterinarians, families, farmers, pastoralists, educators and more. She lives in California and Tennessee.
About “Camel Crazy:”
In this page-turning odyssey, a mother on a mission travels the globe — from Bedouin camps in the Middle East to Amish farms in Pennsylvania to camel-herder villages in India — to obtain camel milk, which dramatically helps her son’s autism symptoms. Chronicling bureaucratic roadblocks, adventure-filled detours, and Christina Adams’s love-fueled determination, Camel Crazy explores why camels are cherished as family members and hailed as healers. Adams’s work uncovers studies of camel milk for possible treatment of autism, allergies, diabetes, and immune dysfunction, as well as ancient traditions of healing. But the most fascinating aspect of Adams’s discoveries is the gentle-eyed, mischievous camels themselves. Huge and often unpredictable, they are amazingly intelligent and adaptable. This moving and rollicking ode to “camel people” and the creatures they adore reveals the ways camels touch lives around the world.