In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan write by John DeFrancis. This book was released on 1993-01-01. In the Footsteps of Genghis Khan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a twenty-three-year-old student in mid-1930s, pre-World War II China, John DeFrancis did not set out to make a thousand-mile camel trek across the Gobi Desert, become the prisoner of a Muslim warlord, or travel twelve hundred miles down the bandit-infested Yellow River on an inflated sheepskin raft. But these were just some of the adventures experienced by the author and his traveling companion when they tried to retrace the footsteps of Genghis Khan and ended up dodging the fighting between the Communists nearing the end of their Long March and a coalition of forces under Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government and a cabal of Muslim warlords. Informed by an extensive knowledge of Chinese history and punctuated with keen observation and gentle humor, the narrative is a personal history that can be read both as a tale of high adventure in the wild west of China and as prelude to the present in that tortured land. Westerners can no longer trace the footsteps of Genghis Khan. Many areas of China that challenged the adventuresome were declared off-limits more than a half-century ago - and the Gobi Desert and sensitive border regions are still inaccessible.
On the Trail of Genghis Khan
On the Trail of Genghis Khan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Trail of Genghis Khan write by Tim Cope. This book was released on 2013-01-01. On the Trail of Genghis Khan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The personal tale of an Australian adventurer's tragedy and triumph that is packed with historical insights. On the Trail of Genghis Khan is at once a celebration of and an elegy for an ancient way of life. Supported by an epic Australian and New Zealand Tour.
On the Trail of Genghis Khan
On the Trail of Genghis Khan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Trail of Genghis Khan write by Tim Cope. This book was released on 2013-09-01. On the Trail of Genghis Khan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century – a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in history. 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, the ancient capital of Mongolia, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Crimea and the Ukraine to the Danube River in Hungary. From horse-riding novice to travelling three years and 10,000 kilometres on horseback, accompanied by his dog Tigon, Tim learnt to fend off wolves and would-be horse-thieves, and grapple with the extremes of the steppe as he crossed sub-zero plateaux, the scorching deserts of Kazakhstan and the high-mountain passes of the Carpathians. Along the way, he was taken in by people who taught him the traditional ways and told him their recent history: Stalin's push for industrialisation brought calamity to the steepe and forced collectivism that in Kazakhstan alone led to the loss of several million livestock and the starvation of more than a million nomads. Today Cope bears witness to how the traditional ways hang precariously in the balance in the post-Soviet world.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World write by Jack Weatherford. This book was released on 2005-03-22. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The startling true history of how one extraordinary man from a remote corner of the world created an empire that led the world into the modern age—by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan. The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization. Vastly more progressive than his European or Asian counterparts, Genghis Khan abolished torture, granted universal religious freedom, and smashed feudal systems of aristocratic privilege. From the story of his rise through the tribal culture to the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed, this brilliant work of revisionist history is nothing less than the epic story of how the modern world was made.
In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomads (Text Only)
In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomads (Text Only) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomads (Text Only) write by Stanley Stewart. This book was released on 2012-11-01. In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomads (Text Only) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As a child, award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on horseback. This is the story of how that dream was fulfilled by following in the footsteps of a 13th-century Franciscan friar.
