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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Riding alongside hardbitten Mongol herdsmen, Severin retraced part of the overland communication system that once linked the far-flung Mongolian empire. In a marvelous adventure that combines travel writing at its serendipitous best with dollops of history and politics, the noted explorer who has recreated crusaders' treks stares into the immense blue vault of Tengri, the Sky God who gave Genghis Khan a mandate to subjugate the world. Severin ( Tracking Marco Polo ) mingled with camel herders in the Gobi desert, weathered an August blizzard, met an old clairvoyant Tuva shamaness, supped with Kazakhs in their yurt (circular tent) and witnessed an outbreak of plague, which he claims is the same disease as the Black Death of medieval Europe. He probes the Mongols' nostalgia for national hero Genghis Khan and monitors the winds of change in a Stalinist-style country undergoing a perestroika liberalization and renaissance of lamaist religion amid a sudden withdrawal of Soviet aid. An enchanting odyssey.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Few places remain as obscure to Americans as Mongolia, that vast expanse of buffer between the former Soviet Union and China. The author, a prolific British travel writer, went there to accompany Mongolian horsemen on a ride across the country (and eventually planned to go all the way to France) to celebrate the memory of Genghis Khan. The frustrations of the mechanics of the journey quickly become tedious to the reader, but Severin's descriptions of the country today, his visit to the Kazakh minority area, an encounter with a Tuva shamaness, his account of the plague (pestes), which continues to be a problem, all make for a vivid picture of the region. Books in Print lists only five books on Mongolia in the last three years, and this one should have the broadest appeal.
-Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Riding alongside hardbitten Mongol herdsmen, Severin retraced part of the overland communication system that once linked the far-flung Mongolian empire. In a marvelous adventure that combines travel writing at its serendipitous best with dollops of history and politics, the noted explorer who has recreated crusaders' treks stares into the immense blue vault of Tengri, the Sky God who gave Genghis Khan a mandate to subjugate the world. Severin ( Tracking Marco Polo ) mingled with camel herders in the Gobi desert, weathered an August blizzard, met an old clairvoyant Tuva shamaness, supped with Kazakhs in their yurt (circular tent) and witnessed an outbreak of plague, which he claims is the same disease as the Black Death of medieval Europe. He probes the Mongols' nostalgia for national hero Genghis Khan and monitors the winds of change in a Stalinist-style country undergoing a perestroika liberalization and renaissance of lamaist religion amid a sudden withdrawal of Soviet aid. An enchanting odyssey.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Few places remain as obscure to Americans as Mongolia, that vast expanse of buffer between the former Soviet Union and China. The author, a prolific British travel writer, went there to accompany Mongolian horsemen on a ride across the country (and eventually planned to go all the way to France) to celebrate the memory of Genghis Khan. The frustrations of the mechanics of the journey quickly become tedious to the reader, but Severin's descriptions of the country today, his visit to the Kazakh minority area, an encounter with a Tuva shamaness, his account of the plague (pestes), which continues to be a problem, all make for a vivid picture of the region. Books in Print lists only five books on Mongolia in the last three years, and this one should have the broadest appeal.
-Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists by Morris Rossabi in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589 by Donald Ostrowski on page 51, and Back Matter
- Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier, 1304-1589 by Donald Ostrowski on page 51, and Back Matter
- Skywatchers, Shamans & Kings: Astronomy and the Archaeology of Power (Wiley Popular Science) by E. C. Krupp in Back Matter
- In Search of Robinson Crusoe by Tim Severin in Front Matter
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