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Man posits that this engrossing book is the result of his ambition to travel to somewhere remote, and that Mongolia, China, and the Gobi Desert are such places. He maintains that secrecy is an important theme of the book: how and where Genghis Khan died, and how and where he was buried. Man chronicles the early history of Mongolia, the coming of the Mongols' conquests of China and other Asian kingdoms, and what he calls the Muslim holocaust. He cites that "there were 100,000 to 150,000 soldiers, each with two or three horses . . . they could cover 100 kilometers a day, cross deserts, swim rivers, and materialize and vanish as if by magic." He says that prisoners had a triple use: as a slave labor force of specialist artisans, as soldiers in the army's nonnomadic contingents, and as "cannon fodder." Genghis Khan fell seriously ill, perhaps with typhus, and died in 1227, and not much is certain about his burial site; the record is, according to the author, "infuriatingly vague." George Cohen
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The creator of the world’s greatest empire is one of history’s immortals. He is also at the heart of one of the greatest mysteries -- how and where was he buried? Its solution might, conceivably, reveal a treasure on a scale not seen since the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb.


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IT IS A HOT SUMMER'S DAY IN MID-JULY 1228 ON THE GRASSLANDS of central Mongolia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
willow bushes, pastoral nomadism, composite bow, secret grave, sworn brother Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Secret History, Genghis Khan, Burkhan Khaldun, Yellow River, Eternal Heaven, Central Asia, Khan Khenti, Inner Mongolia, Inner Asia, Liu Wen, Khara Khitai, Almsgiver's Wall, Blue Heaven, Cultural Revolution, Marco Polo, Silk Road, Burkhart Khaldun, Lord's Enclosure, Three Beauties, Great Wall, Qing Shui, Tien Shan, Liupan Shan, Countryside Island, Holy Genghis New!
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