ASIN: B00JKOVL2S
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Pages: 276
`Written with all the wit and assurance we have come to expect from this remarkable author, In Search of Genghis Khan is...a delight' - Daily Mail
In the month of the Horse, in the Year of the White Horse, Tim Severin along with six Mongol companions and photographer Paul set out on an extraordinary journey.
Intent on following the paths trodden by the soldiers of Genghis Khan in the thirteenth century, they ventured to cross some of the most remote and inhospitable territory of Mongolia, the Dead Heart, of Asia.
Many surprises awaited them as they found their way through the barren terrain: the August snows, the Black Death that still breaks out every year among the horse herders, the ancient lamas who had hidden among the common people during the great anti-religious purges, and the toothless shaman woman.
But perhaps the greatest surprise was that after years of Communist ...
