The Mongols
A History
Praised by American president Theodore Roosevelt for his superior scholarship, folklorist Jeremiah Curtin was considered an accomplished translator, but The Mongols, published in 1908, is one of his few works of original nonfiction. At the time Curtin was writing, very little was known about the Mongols, even among well-educated men, and so this captivating book still serves as an excellent general introduction to the Mongol culture. Curtin describes their homeland and early society as herdsman and raiders and, through folklore, introduces the first leaders, or Khans, including the rise of Temudjin, the great Genghis Khan, and his conquest of…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60520-136-8
- EAN: 9781605201368
- Produktnummer: 36130022
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 456 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.6 cm 639 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 639
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