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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 Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
| John Man is an historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia and the history of written communication. After reading German and French at Oxford he did two postgraduate courses, one in the history of science, the other in Mongolian. He is the author of a number of acclaimed works of non-fiction, including the forthcoming biography of ATTILA THE HUN. |
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