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100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can't Missby Dave Freeman, Neil Teplica, Jennifer Coonce, Whatsgoingon.ComISBN 087833243X (0-87833-243-X)
Softcover, Taylor Pub
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Around the Sacred Seaby Bartle BullISBN 0862418461 (0-86241-846-1)
Hardcover, Canongate Books
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Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the Eastby Marco PoloISBN 0804901864 (0-8049-0186-4)
Softcover, Ams Pr Inc
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Bradt Travel Guide Mongoliaby Jane Blunden, Jim Edwards, Sue Carpenter, Paul Wakefield, Belinda Ryan, Alan Saffery, Nicolas Gardner, Antonial Tozer, Pinkie WakefieldISBN 1898323941 (1-898323-94-1)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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A Country for Katieby Barbara Massey, Sylvia DeloachISBN 156309259X (1-56309-259-X)
Hardcover, B & H Pub Group
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Cronica Del Pajaro/bird Chroniclesby Haruki Murakami, Lourdes Porta Fuentes, Jun'ichi MatsuuraISBN 8483101718 (84-8310-171-8)
Softcover, Tusquets Editor
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cronica Del Pajaro/bird Chronicles'Book summary:Tooru Okada, un joven japonés que acaba de dejar voluntariamente su trabajo en un bufete de abogados, recibe un buen día la llamada anónima de una mujer. A partir de ese momento la vida de Tooru, que había transcurrido por los cauces de la más absoluta normalidad, empieza a sufrir una extraña transformación. A su alrededor van apareciendo personajes cada vez más extraños, y la realidad, o lo real, va degradándose hasta convertirse en algo fantasmagórico.
The masterpiece of Japanese cult writer Haruki Murakami, the story of Tooru Okada, a young lawyer whose life begins to undergo a bizarre transformation. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle presents a collection of characters as surprising as they are real. [via]More editions of Cronica Del Pajaro/bird Chronicles:
The Devil's Horsemen: The Mongol Invasion of Europeby James ChambersISBN 1842122436 (1-84212-243-6)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffsby Michael Novacek, Ed HeckISBN 0385477759 (0-385-47775-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs'Book summary:One of the fields of study opened up by the collapse of Communism is, oddly enough, that of the distant past: Western archeologists have for the first time in six decades been allowed to explore the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. This is the region explored in the 1930s by the famed Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History. It is also the region wonderfully described in this stirring book by Michael Novacek, the current curator of the museum's department of vertebrate paleontology, who led the recent expeditions onto the high desert and into the heart of the Cretaceous Period in Asia. In 1993, Novacek's expedition found an astonishing trove of fossils in a wasteland called Ukhaa Tolgod, not too far from the Flaming Cliffs where Andrews made his most important finds. But, as with all great travel adventure stories, getting to Ukhaa Tolgod is the real tale. [via]
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Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongoliaby Stephen J. BodioISBN 1592282075 (1-59228-207-5)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Even A Daughter Is Better Than Nothingby Mykel BoardISBN 1891053000 (1-891053-00-0)
Softcover, Garrett County Pr
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Genghis Khanby R. P. ListerISBN 0815410522 (0-8154-1052-2)
Softcover, Cooper Square Pub
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Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern Worldby Jack WeatherfordISBN 0609809644 (0-609-80964-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World'Book summary:The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford, the only Western scholar ever to be allowed into the Mongols Great Taboo Genghis Khans homeland and forbidden burial sitetracks the astonishing story of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and their conquest and transformation of the world.
Fighting his way to power on the remote steppes of Mongolia, Genghis Khan developed revolutionary military strategies and weaponry that emphasized rapid attack and siege warfare, which he then brilliantly used to overwhelm opposing armies in Asia, break the back of the Islamic world, and render the armored knights of Europe obsolete. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongol army never numbered more than 100,000 warriors, yet it subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans conquered in four hundred. With an empire that stretched from Siberia to India, from Vietnam to Hungary, and from Korea to the Balkans, the Mongols dramatically redrew the map of the globe, connecting disparate kingdoms into a new world order.
But contrary to popular wisdom, Weatherford reveals that the Mongols were not just masters of conquest, but possessed a genius for progressive and benevolent rule. On every level and from any perspective, the scale and scope
of Genghis Khans accomplishments challenge the limits of imagination. Genghis Khan was an innovative leader, the first ruler in many conquered countries to put the power of law above his own power, encourage religious freedom, create public schools, grant diplomatic immunity, abolish torture, and institute free trade. The trade routes he created became lucrative pathways for commerce, but also for ideas, technologies, and expertise that transformed the way people lived. The Mongols introduced the first international paper currency and postal system and developed and spread revolutionary technologies like printing, the cannon, compass, and abacus. They took local foods and products like lemons, carrots, noodles, tea, rugs, playing cards, and pants and turned them into staples of life around the world. The Mongols were the architects of a new way of life at a pivotal time in history.
In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford resurrects the true history of Genghis Khan, from the story of his relentless rise through Mongol tribal culture to the waging of his devastatingly successful wars and the explosion of civilization that the Mongol Empire unleashed. This dazzling work of revisionist history doesnt just paint an unprecedented portrait of a great leader and his legacy, but challenges us to reconsider how the modern world was made. [via]More editions of Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World:
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Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empireby Jean-Paul RouxISBN 0810991039 (0-8109-9103-9)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire'Book summary:The legendary Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan (1155-1227) built one of the largest and most powerful empires in all history, striking fear and leaving devastation in his wake. Through their military brilliance, extreme discipline, and innovative weaponry, by 1224 the Mongols had expanded their empire--in which justice ruled, commerce flouished, all religions and races were accepted, and great scientific and artistic strides were made--into modern-day Korea, China, Russia, the Middle East, India, and eastern Europe. This in-depth survey by historian Jean-Paul Roux gives the reader a clear vision of this incomparable leader and the achievements of his mighty empire. [via]
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Genghis Khan and the Mongol Hordeby Harold Lamb, Elton C. FaxISBN 0208022872 (0-208-02287-2)
Hardcover, Linnet Books
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Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the Worldby Leo De HartogISBN 1860649726 (1-86064-972-6)
Softcover, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World'Book summary:Genghis Khan was able to unite the primitive Mongol tribes of the harsh Siberian steppes and organize them into highly mobile and disciplined squadrons which he used to conquer most of the known world. In this landmark work, Leo de Hartog looks at the world situation in the 13th century and how Ghengis Khan exploited it. More than a ruthless warrior, the great Khan was an administrative genius who selected military and civilian leaders and set up bureaucratic structures that fortified his regime.[via]More editions of Genghis Khan: Conqueror of the World:
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Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacyby Paul Ratchnevsky, Thomas Nivison HainingISBN 0631189491 (0-631-18949-1)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy'Book summary:Genghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest continuous land empire ever. On his death in 1227, this extended from the Near East to the Yellow Sea, and was expanded by his successors to include what is now Iran, Iraq and southern Russia. By 1206, Genghis Khan had completed the unification by conquest of all the tribes of Mongolia, and was acclaimed as universal Khan. He then launched his assault on Northern China. Peking was captured in 1215, and the Chin were finally subjugated by Genghis's successors in 1234. This is the definitive biography. [via]
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Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrectionby John ManISBN 0312366248 (0-312-36624-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection: ISBN 0593050444 (0-593-05044-4)
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Geological Mapping and Prospecting in North Kerulen Territory, Mongolian People's Republic: International Geological Expedition, 1976-1980by Laszlo PentelenyiISBN 9636710244 (963-671-024-4)
Softcover, Franklin
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Ghostwrittenby David MitchellISBN 0375724508 (0-375-72450-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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At the heart of Mitchell's book is the global extension of the postmodern city, and the networks (cultural, technological, phantasmagoric) to which it gives rise. A metropolis like Tokyo is quite literally beyond our comprehension:
Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It's so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It's long since filled up the plain, and now it's creeping up the mountains to the west and reclaiming land from the bay in the east. The city never stops rewriting itself. In the time one street guide is produced, it's already become out of date. It's a tall city, and a deep one, as well as a spread-out one.
At this level, urban sprawl becomes an epistemological condition. On one hand it leads to a Japanese death cult, purging the "unclean" from the city's subway with nerve gas. And on the other, it produces a certain splintering of the human personality. "I'm this person, I'm this person, I'm that person, I'm that person too," chants Neal, the narrator of the book's second part. "No wonder it's all such a ... mess." He's talking about his life as a Hong Kong trader, a "man of departments, compartments, apartments." But he might also be describing the experience of reading Ghostwritten. At once loquacious and knowing, leisurely and frantic, Mitchell offers a huge, but fragmentary, portmanteau. And while he's labored diligently to solder together the many parts--the aching bodies, the reality police, the impossibly complex machinery of contemporary life--his novel, too, may suffer from an excess of split personality. --Vicky Lebeau [via] 
The Gobi Desertby Mildred Cable, Francesca FrenchISBN 0807070335 (0-8070-7033-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Hearing Birds Fly : A Nomadic Year in Mongoliaby Louisa WaughISBN 034911580X (0-349-11580-X)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empireby David ChristianISBN 0631208143 (0-631-20814-3)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The History of the Mongol Conquestsby J. J. SaundersISBN 0812217667 (0-8122-1766-7)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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History of the Mongols: Based on Eastern and Western Accounts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuriesby Bertold SpulerISBN 0880292717 (0-88029-271-7)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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Horsesby Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Jean-Louis GouraudISBN 1579652743 (1-57965-274-3)
Hardcover, Artisan
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Accompanying text recounts the rich history of our centuriesold relationship with horses, and the role each breed has played on the world stage. [via]More editions of Horses:
In Search of Genghis Khan : An Exhilarating Journey on Horseback Across the Steppes of Mongoliaby Tim SeverinISBN 0815412878 (0-8154-1287-8)
Softcover, Cooper Square Publishers, Incorporated
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In Secret Mongoliaby Henning HaslundISBN 0932813275 (0-932813-27-5)
Softcover, Adventures Unlimited Pr
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In the Empire of Genghis Khan: A Journey Among Nomadsby Stanley StewartISBN 1585747033 (1-58574-703-3)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in Historyby Stanley StewartISBN 1592281060 (1-59228-106-0)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History'Book summary:Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly awaited book takes its place among the travel classics. It is a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, and an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world. Eight and a half centuries ago, under Genghis Khan, the Mongols burst forth from Central Asia in a series of spectacular conquests that took them from the Danube to the Yellow Sea. Their empire was seen as the final triumph of the nomadic "barbarians." In this remarkable book Stanley Stewart sets off on a pilgrimage across the old empire, from Istanbul to the distant homeland of the Mongol hordes. The heart of his odyssey is a thousand-mile ride, traveling by horse, through trackless land.[via]
On a journey full of bizarre characters and unexpected encounters, he crosses the desert and mountains of central Asia to arrive at the windswept grasslands of the steppes, the birthplace of Genghis Khan.More editions of In the Empire of Genghis Khan: An Amazing Odyssey Through the Lands of the Most Feared Conquerors in History:
Introduction to Mongolian History and Cultureby Larry Moses, Steirn A. HalkovicISBN 0933070187 (0-933070-18-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Research
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The Journey Of William Of Rubruck To The Eastern Parts Of The World, 1253-1255by Willem van Ruysbroeck, W.W. RockhillISBN 8120613384 (81-206-1338-4)
Hardcover, Asian Educational Services
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The Last Disco in Outer Mongoliaby Nick MiddletonISBN 1857990129 (1-85799-012-9)
Hardcover, Phoenix
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The Last Secrets of the Silk Road: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo by Horse and Camelby Countess Alexandra TolstoyISBN 1592282016 (1-59228-201-6)
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The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Stefano Carboni, Linda KomaroffISBN 1588390721 (1-58839-072-1)
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Lonely Planet Mongoliaby Robert StoreyISBN 1864500646 (1-86450-064-6)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Mongoliaby Bradley MayhewISBN 1740593596 (1-74059-359-6)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Lonely Planet Mongolian Phrasebookby J. Bat-IreediuISBN 086442308X (0-86442-308-X)
Softcover, Lonely Planet
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Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the Worldby Robert Uhlig, Ewan McGregor, Charley BoormanISBN 0743499344 (0-7434-9934-4)
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From London to New York, Ewan and Charley chased their shadows through Europe, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia, across the Pacific to Alaska, then down through Canada and America. But as the miles slipped beneath the tyres of their big BMWs, their troubles started. Exhaustion, injury and accidents tested their strength. Treacherous roads, unpredictable weather and turbulent politics challenged their stamina. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls' testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads.
And yet despite all these obstacles they managed to ride over 20,000 miles in four months, changing their lives forever in the process. As they travelled they documented their trip, taking photographs, and writing diaries by the campfire. "Long Way Round" is the result of their adventures - a fascinating, frank and highly entertaining travel book about two friends riding round the world together and, against all the odds, realising their dream. [via]
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Long Way Round : Chasing Shadows Across the Worldby Ewan McGregor, Charley BoormanISBN 0316731706 (0-316-73170-6)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Metropolis: Ten Cities and Ten Centuriesby Albert Lorenz, Joy SchlehISBN 0810942844 (0-8109-4284-4)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck : His Journey to the Court of the Great Khan Mvngke, 1253-1255by Peter Jackson, David MorganISBN 0904180298 (0-904180-29-8)
Hardcover, Hakluyt Society
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Mongolia: Empire of the Steppes, Land of Genghis Khanby Clare SermierISBN 9622177492 (962-217-749-2)
Softcover, Odyssey Pubns
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Mongolia's Wild Heritage: Monggol-Un Unagan Bayigali-Yin ob Biological Diversity, Protected Areas, and Conservation in the Land of Chingis Khaanby World Wide Fund for Nature, Global Environment Facility, MongoliaISBN 0937321044 (0-937321-04-4)
Hardcover, Mongolia, Ministry for Nature and the Environment, United Nations Development Programme-Global Environment Facility, WorldWide Fund for Nature
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Mongolian Folktalesby Hilary Roe Metternich, Norovsambuugiin Baatartsog, P. Khorloo, Khorloo PureviinISBN 0937321060 (0-937321-06-0)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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The Mongolsby David MorganISBN 1405135395 (1-4051-3539-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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My Life As an Explorer: The Great Adventurer's Classic Memoirby Sven Anders Hedin, Alfhild HuebschISBN 1568361424 (1-56836-142-4)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Life As an Explorer: The Great Adventurer's Classic Memoir'Book summary:FROM THE SILK ROAD AND TIBET, THE EPIC MEMOIR OF A BESTSELLING ADVENTURE
Over the course of three decades, Sven Hedin traveled the ancient Silk Road, discovered long-lost cities, mapped previously uncharted rivers, and saw more of "the roof of the world" than any European before him. This epic memoir captures the splendor of now-vanished civilizations, the excitement of unearthing ancient monuments, the chilling terrors of snow-clogged mountain passes, and the parching agony of the desert. A worldwide bestseller in the 1920s, it today introduces a new generation to a man of exceptional daring and accomplishment. The book is illustrated with 160 of Hedin's own drawings. [via]More editions of My Life As an Explorer: The Great Adventurer's Classic Memoir:
Riding Windhorses: A Journey into the Heart of Mongolian Shamanismby Sarangerel Odigan, Sarangerel, Julie Ann StewartISBN 0892818085 (0-89281-808-5)
Softcover, Destiny Books
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Steppe by Step: Mongolia's Christians--from Ancient Roots to Vibrant Young Churchby Hugh P. KempISBN 1854244841 (1-85424-484-1)
Softcover, Monarch Books
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Stone Councilby Ian Monk, Jean-Christophe GrangeISBN 1860468640 (1-86046-864-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Stone Councilby Jean-Christophe Grange, Ian MonkISBN 1860469965 (1-86046-996-5)
Softcover, Random House
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Studies on Mongolia: Proceedings of the First North American Conference on Mongolian Studiesby Henry G. Schwarz, Western Washington UniversityISBN 0914584138 (0-914584-13-8)
Hardcover, Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
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Travelsby Marco PoloISBN 3895084530 (3-89508-453-0)
Hardcover, Koenemann Verlagsgesellschaft
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Travels in Northern Mongoliaby Don CronerISBN 1413442749 (1-4134-4274-9)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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The Travels of Marco Poloby Marco PoloISBN 1853264733 (1-85326-473-3)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Travels of Marco Polo'Book summary:It was perhaps the first book to achieve best-seller status before the invention of the printing press-it was certainly the most controversial. Did Venetian trader and explorer MARCO POLO (1254-1324) actually reach the court of Kublai Khan, serve the emperor as his emissary, and journey the distant lands of Cathay for 17 years, as he relates in his Travels of Marco Polo? The question still hasn't quite been settled today... but whether Polo experienced firsthand the wonders of ancient China, retold tales he heard from Arab travelers along the Silk Road, or simply invented half his stories, this remains a delightful read for fans of history, adventure, and medieval literature. [via]
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Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Travels Of Marco Polo: ISBN 0460113062 (0-460-11306-2)
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Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books - The Travels of Marco Polo: ISBN 0871406578 (0-87140-657-8)
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The Travels of Marco Poloby Henri Cordier, Marco Polo, Henry YuleISBN 0486275868 (0-486-27586-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Travels of Marco Poloby Milton RugoffISBN 0451517172 (0-451-51717-2)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Travels of Marco Polo'Book summary:First published in 1931. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones.
· An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871).
· The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all.
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The Travels of Marco Poloby Ronald LethamISBN 0140440577 (0-14-044057-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Travels of Marco Polo'Book summary:Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy. [via]
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The Travels of Marco Poloby Teresa Waugh, Marco Polo, Maria BellonciISBN 0871968908 (0-87196-890-8)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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· An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871).
· The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all.
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Where the Pavement Ends: One Woman's Bicycle Trip Through Mongolia, China & Vietnamby Erika WarmbrunnISBN 0898866847 (0-89886-684-7)
Hardcover, Mountaineers Books
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Wild East: Travels in the New Mongoliaby Jill LawlessISBN 1550224344 (1-55022-434-4)
Softcover, E C W Pr
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicleby Haruki MurakamiISBN 1860464696 (1-86046-469-6)
Softcover, Harvill Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'Book summary:Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.
Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.
If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight. --Simon Leake [via]
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Women of Mongoliaby Martha AveryISBN 0937321052 (0-937321-05-2)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Concile de Pierreby Jean GrangeISBN 2253172162 (2-253-17216-2)
Softcover, Librairie Generale Francaise, LGF
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Dojnaa: Erzahlungby Galsan TschinagISBN 3927743550 (3-927743-55-0)
Hardcover, A1
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