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

STEWART, Stanley

Asia

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Ian Allan

The Enclosed Garden: The Tradition & the Image in 17th Century Poetry

The University of Wisconsin Press

Shakespeare and Philosophy (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare)

Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present. Stewart's volume will be of interest to Shakespeareans, literary critics, and philosophers.

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

This book presents fascinating facts about what it takes to fly a big jet. How does a large aircraft fly? How long is the take-off run at maximum weight? How much fuel is carried on a transatlantic flight? The answers to these and thousands of other questions are given with sufficient enough detail to satisfy even the most inquisitive reader. Chapter by chapter, readers are taken from the basics of big jets through to the actual flight of a Boeing 777 from London to Boston. Readers will examine the weather forecast with the pilots, monitor the take-off from the flight deck, listen to the radio reports along the way, view the mid-Atlantic weather from above the clouds, witness the preparations for descent, and experience the excitement of landing in Boston. "Flying the Big Jets" is a comprehensive book that reveals the every-day working environment of the modern long-haul airline pilot.

Flying the Big Jets: All You Wanted to Know About the Jumbos but Couldn't Find a Pilot to Ask

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Arco Pub.

From the Flight Deck 1 Heathrow

History

Americas

Allan

Military

Ian Allan Pub

The author recounts his journey down the Nile from mouth to source. He covers 4000 miles over nine months, visiting desert monastries, sailing by felucca, meeting the victims of famine in Sudan and narrowly escaping the attentions of the Ugandan army.

Old Serpent Nile: a Journey to the Source: A Journey to the Source

John Murray General Publishing Division

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