Full name: Secret History of the Mongols: The Origin of Chingis Khan

Author: Paul Kahn Year: 1984 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Culture: Asia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780887272998 0887272991

This adaptation of what is recognized today as the oldest Mongolian text (written two decades after Chingis Khan`s death) tells the Mongols` own version of the origin of their nation, the life of Chingis Khan, and the creation of an empire that stretched across Eurasia in the 13th century. Adapted from Francis Woodman Cleaves` erudite translation, it is presented here as a narrative poem in colloquial English. An overview of medieval Asia, maps, lineage charts, a glossary of proper names, and a bibliography are included. This expanded edition includes a 17th-century account of Chingis Khan`s death and a new essay by the author. Similar books: Japan at War by Haruko Taya Cook In Our Image by Stanley Karnow The Opium War by Julia Lovell Tiananmen Moon by Philip J. Cunningham Mission to China by Mary Laven The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan Rubicon by Tom Holland All Hell Let Loose by Max Hastings 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery History by Adam Hart-Davis Astoria by Peter Stark Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon The Gold Hunters by J. D. Borthwick The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence The Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga Inside the Victorian Home by Judith Flanders