With 58 chapters written by both senior and early-career scholars, the volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars who study the Mongol Empire from its origins to its disintegration and legacy.
Inspired by the extraordinary life nomads still lead today, Tim Cope embarked on a journey that hadn't been successfully completed since those times: to travel on horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, from Karakorum, ...
In Lost in Mongolia, Colin Angus takes readers through never-before-seen territory and his wonderful sense of adventure and humour come through on every page.
May also includes an overview of Chinggis Khan, the father of the Mongol Empire, and his legacy in Mongolian culture today. Ideal for high school and undergraduate students, this volume is an essential addition to library shelves.
... Mongol yourt . To do so is tanta- mount to an act of aggression , and the proper thing is to lay them on the roof outside as one enters . Once inside , the usual palaver , as in China , takes place as to where one shall sit , and it is ...
... what to do, but instead they shared the problem and pointed them to the Scriptures. Though the missionary may know what needs to hap- pen, it is not often that he has the presence of mind not to give the an- swer, but to ask the question, ...
... Mongol yourt . To do so is tanta- mount to an act of aggression , and the proper thing is to lay them on the roof outside as one enters . Once inside , the usual palaver , as in China , takes place as to where one shall sit , and it is ...
WINNER STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL PRIZE 2019 'It's the resistance to the obvious narratives that makes Rough Magic so appealing: the book undermines lazy women-in-the-wilderness tropes at every turn ...