This is an auction for IN THE EMPIRE OF GENGHIS KHAN: A JOURNEY AMONG NOMADS, by Stanley Stewart.

“Stewart finally fulfilled a childhood desire to experience nomadic Mongol life when he set out on a 1000-mile trek on horseback across Outer Mongolia. Enlisting the services of a sturdy steed and, at separate stages, two guide-translators, he traversed the Gobi desert to Quaraqorum, the ancient capital, and pressed on to Dadal, the birthplace of Genghis Khan. Relishing Mongol customs and culture, he slept in round-tented gurs, drank airag (fermented mare's milk), devoured mutton with his various hosts, and, among other empathetic gestures, partook in a shaman's divinatory ceremony. His observations of social and spiritual detail are supplemented with relevant historical background, and his more memorable encounters are often imbued with affable-if not self-deprecating-humour. Stewart, the only author to have twice received the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (for both this title and his earlier Frontiers of Heaven), offers an engaging travel memoir. Recommended.”

• Library Journal (US)

Very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Paperback 2001.

266 pages + photographs.

Very good condition.

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