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Brill is proud to announce the paperback edition of the much-acclaimed standard work Secret History of the Mongols by Igor de Rachewiltz. The 13th century Secret History of the Mongols , covering the great Cinggis Qan’s (1162-1227) ancestry and life, stands out as a literary monument of... read more
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Simply the one and only source on the life of the Great Khan. This landmark of Mongolian literature, the only of its kind to emerge from a nomadic culture, uses a combination of prose and epic poetry to tell of the life of Genghis Khan and that of his successor, his son Obatai. This eition... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
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- Temujin - Genghis Khan: Abandoned with his family by his clan in one of the most cruel environments on Earth, and left with nothing, Temujin went on to unite the Mongol tribes for the first time in history. He then took his united people and, with them, conquered half the planet and established the largest contiguous land empire in the history of the world.
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- Dewey: 301
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