In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through The Lands Of The Most Feared Conquerors In History

by Stanley Stewart

Overview

A pilgrimage across the old empire of Genghis Khan, from Istanbul to Mongolia. Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592281060
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	685,948
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

STANLEY STEWART is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. His work has taken him to more than fifty countries, and has won him numerous prestigious awards-including Travel Writer of the Year. He is the author of Old Serpent Nile, an account of his journey to the source of the river; and Frontiers of Heaven, the story of his journey across China, for which he won his first Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	viii
	Maps	x
	Prologue	xv
1	Our Lady of the Mongols	1
2	The Voyage Out	15
3	The Kazakhstan Express	34
4	A Detestable Nation of Satan	54
5	The Birthday Party	69
6	Some Other World	85
7	The Naadam Wrestlers	105
8	The Shaman's Journey	123
9	On the Edge of the Gobi	144
10	Riding to Zag	161
11	Fishing with the Librarian	171
12	The Company of Old Men	186
13	The Wedding Battle	207
14	Another Country	228
15	In Search of Genghis Khan	241
	Index	263

Editorial Reviews

"One of the best travel books of the year."—Sunday Times

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