“The Pechenegs were nomads roaming the steppe, raising livestock which they traded for agricultural goods and other products.”

“These wrens breed in rocky habitats, such as canyons, coulees, outcroppings, and talus slopes in the steppe and dry forests.”

“My driver had navigated through the arid steppe land without compass or map let alone one of those hateful satellite guidance systems.”

“The present distribution of mountains and rivers, of fields, of meadows, of steppes, of forests, and of seashores, cannot be considered final.”

“With these they are able to dramatise plains, prairies, steppes and meadows.”

“What would he have made of it, this endlessly questing, insatiably curious man of the steppes?”