03070cam a2200337 4500 607830778 TxAuBib 20220821120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781608194476 1608194477 B00C2M4G6I Amazon 91f0905d-d82e-46f3-a38e-22bd4b3d9fb4 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1402914 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Cope, Tim. On the Trail of Genghis Khan [Bridges eBook] : An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 16MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Essays & Travelogues. HTML:<b>Grand Prize Winner, Banff Mountain Festival Book Competition<br /></b>The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century – a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in history. Inspired by the extraordinary life nomads lead, Tim Cope embarked on a journey that hadn't been successfully completed since those times: to travel on horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian steppe, from Karakorum, the ancient capital of Mongolia, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Crimea and the Ukraine to the Danube River in Hungary.<br /> From horse-riding novice to spending months in the saddle, he learnt to fend off wolves and would-be horse-thieves, and grapple with the haunting extremes of the steppe as he crossed sub-zero plateaux, the scorching deserts of Kazakhstan and the high-mountain passes of the Carpathians. As he travelled he formed a close bond with his horses and especially his dog Tigon, and encountered essential hospitality – the linchpin of human survival on the steppe – from those he met along the way.<br /> Cope bears witness to how the traditional ways hang in the balance in the post-Soviet world – an era that has brought new-found freedom, but also the perils of corruption and alcoholism, and left a world bereft of both the Communist system upon which it once relied, and the traditional knowledge of the nomadic forefathers.<br /> A journey of adventure, endurance and eventual triumph, <i>On the Trail of Genghis Khan</i> is at once a celebration of and an elegy for an ancient way of life. Nonfiction. History. Travel. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-10-19 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/on-the-trail-91f090?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/on-the-trail-91f090?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/on-the-trail-91f090?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)