That's the sound the Afghan herder recalls hearing as he walked alone through a pine forest last month.
Within weeks of its original release, the semi-autobiographical tale of a Chinese student being taught the ways of the steppe by a wise old Mongol herder was being devoured by .
A neckpiece of Iraq shows not troops but fruit, a mosque and the tower at Samarra, while one for Sudan shows a cluster of pyramids and a herder leading cattle instead of images of .
10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos - NBC40.net (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout, File). AP10ThingsToSee - An Indian buffalo herder holding a traditional handmade umbrella stands in a field to keep watch of his buffaloes, unseen, as monsoon clouds hover above in Bhubaneswar, India, Thursday, June 13, 2013.
June 20, 2013 - NBC40 South Jersey
10 Things to See: A week of top AP photos (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout, File). AP10ThingsToSee - An Indian buffalo herder holding a traditional handmade umbrella stands in a field to keep watch of his buffaloes, unseen, as monsoon clouds hover above in Bhubaneswar, India, Thursday, June 13, 2013.
June 20, 2013 - Your Hometown Lima Stations
George Takei in Metro George said: "I will share this photo with Brad, people are going to wonder about you Joe. You look like a Brokeback Mountain sheep herder; I may offer this photo to Out magazine!"
John Boehner in Lebanon Western Star We just head south and south and south and south,Boehner, R-West Chester, said. "Past the sheep with the Bedouin herder, past the goats, past the herd of camels and through a couple of security checkpoints and here's a great big white tent...
Barack Obama in The Birmingham News - al.com Something happened here in Selma, in Birmingham, in Montgomery that sent what Bobby Kennedy called 'ripples of hope' all the way to Africa, where my father, a goat herder, could have hope for a better life,Obama said in his speech at the...