On the trail of Genghis Khan an epic journey through the land of the nomads
Undertaking a journey not successfully completed since the days of Genghis Khan, a professional adventurer recounts his travels by horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, a 6,000-mile, three-year-long trip.
Main Author: | Cope, Tim, 1978- |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New York :
St Martins Pr
2013.
Bloomsbury, 2013. |
Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
Subjects: |
Summary: |
Undertaking a journey not successfully completed since the days of Genghis Khan, a professional adventurer recounts his travels by horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, a 6,000-mile, three-year-long trip. |
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Physical Description: |
viii, 509 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
1608190722 : HRD 9781608190720 |
Author Notes: |
Tim Cope is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an award-winning adventurer, author, filmmaker and motivational speaker with a special interest in Central Asia and states of the former Soviet Union. He has studied as a wilderness guide in the Finnish and Russian Arctic, ridden a bicycle across Russia to China, and rowed a boat 4500km through Siberia to the Arctic Ocean. He lives in Victoria, Australia and travels annually to Mongolia as a trekking guide. |