In the Service of the Khan
Author : Igor de Rachewiltz
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 9783447033398
Author : Igor de Rachewiltz
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 9783447033398
Author : Reiner Knizia
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2016-10-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781568821078
Card Game
Author : Paul Lococo
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2011-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1612340601
It was through bitter experience growing up on the harsh and unforgiving steppes of Mongolia that Genghis Khan learned to trust few people and to be vigilant of the personalities and events around him. As a result of an early life filled with hardship, betrayals, and constant struggle, Genghis Khan developed into a cunning and effective leader of men in battle. He became an innovative commander who disdained customary tactics when those strategies failed to bring victory.Genghis Khan united the tribes of Mongolia in a way never before seen, leading them to the settled lands of Eurasia and achieving almost super-human victories over vastly larger forces. By the time of his death he had created an empire of immense proportions, larger than anything before in history. Genghis Khan addresses how the teenaged son of a minor Mongol chieftain created a military machine of extraordinary striking power and wielded it to conquer such lands as China, Central Asia, and Persia.Potomac's Military Profiles series features essential treatments of the lives of significant military figures from ancient times through the present. Both the general audience and readers with a professional interest will appreciate each volume's concise blend of analysis and well-crafted writing. These books also serve as a starting point for those who wish to pursue a more advanced study of the subject.
Author : John DeFrancis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780824814939
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.
Author : Clive Cussler
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408732947
From the frigid lakes of Siberia to the hot wastes of the Gobi desert, Dirk Pitt is on the trail of fabled treasure . . . Rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal is all in a day's work for adventurers Dirk Pitt and partner Al Giordino. Yet when their ship is sabotaged and the survey team vanishes, Pitt is forced to get to the bottom of a mystery with far-reaching consequences. Soon he's on his way to Mongolia. There, a powerful and ruthless business tycoon holding an astonishing secret about Genghis Khan is hoping to emulate the legend's greatest conquests - but on a global scale! With the legacy of Khan and the lost treasures of Xanadu as the prize and the future security of the world at stake, Dirk Pitt for one isn't going to stand idly by . . . Treasure of Khan is the nineteenth of Clive Cussler's bestselling Dirk Pitt novels and is co-authored with his son Dirk Cussler. Praise for Clive Cussler 'Clive Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'Clive Cussler is the guy I read' Tom Clancy 'The Adventure King' Daily Express
Author : Leo de Hartog
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Mongols
ISBN : 9780760711927
Author : Khizr Khan
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1524770914
The author traces his family's experiences immigrating to the U.S. to introduce the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, explaining how it represents America's democratic values and discussing the importance of the documents' history.
Author : James Baillie Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 1850
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Arshad Khan
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780966086355
Author : Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 1918
Category : India
ISBN :