As a child, award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on horseback. This is the story of how that dream was fulfilled by following in the footsteps of a 13th-century Franciscan friar. Eight centuries ago the Mongols burst forth from Central Asia in a series of spectacular conquests that took them from the Danube to the Yellow Sea. Their empire was seen as the final triumph of the nomadic 'barbarians'. But in time the Mongols sank back into the obscurity from which they had emerged, almost without trace. Remote and outlandish, Outer Mongolia became a metaphor for exile, a lost domain of tents and horsemen, little changed since the days of Genghis Khan. In this remarkable book, Stanley Stewart sets off in the wake of an obscure 13th century Franciscan friar on a pilgimage across the old empire, from Istanbul to the distant homeland of the Mongol Hordes. The heart of his odyssey is a thousand-mile ride on horseback, among nomads for whom travel is a way of life, through a trackless land governed by winds and patterns of migration. On a journey full of bizarre characters and unexpected encounters, he crosses the desert and mountains of Central Asia, battles through the High Altay and the fringes of the Gobi, to the wind-swept grasslands of the steppes and the birthplace of Genghis Khan. Vivid, hilarious, and compelling, this eagerly-awaited book will take its place among travel classics - a thrilling tale of adventure, a comic masterpiece, an evocative portrait of a medieval land marooned in the modern world.

In the Empire of Genghis Khan : A Journey Among Nomads

Travel

Stanley Stewart

Asia

Flamingo

Stanley Stewart describes his journey through Egypt, Sudan and Uganda to the source of the great river Nile. Taking him from Nile Delta to the Mountains of the Moon, the trip was arduous, colourful, funny and sometimes dangerous.

Old Serpent Nile : A Journey to the Source

Africa

Firebird Distributing

Air Disasters is not a comprehensive survey of crashers and catastrophes - and looks at 20 of the most significant in the last 30 years: from the 1972 crash of a Turkish Airlines DC-10 to the fatal plunge of a Swissair in flight off the waters of Nova Scotia. Between these two dates such tragedies as the TAMU Fairchild Hitler accident in the Chilean mountains, forever immortalized in the film Alive; the 1977 PanAm 747 and KLM Boeing 747 collision on the runway in the Canary...

Air Disasters: Including Dialogue from the Black Box

Michael Sharpe

Leo Marriott

Barnes&Noble

This work tells the stories of actual air incidents and near-misses, recounted by those who experienced them firsthand.

Emergency! Crisis In The Cockpit

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Tab Books

Reprint of a 1986 title in softback records twelve of the most significant air disasters during the last fifty years, from the crash of the R-101 airship in 1930 to the two 747 disasters of 1985 - the Japan Air Lines crash near Tokyo and the Air India flight disappearance off the Irish coast. Many maps and drawings.

Air Disasters: Dialogue from the Black Box

Emergency

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Airlife Publishing Ltd.

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