Alone except for a trusty dog, Cope’s journey took him an incredible 6,000-miles and three years to complete, through the haunting extremes of wolf-infested mountains and forests, sub-zero plateaus and scorching deserts, and into the heart of a people who embraced him with traditional hospitality – the linchpin of survival on the steppe. A celebration of and an elegy for the nomadic way of life, On the Trail of Genghis Khan is an immersive, enlightening look at a land, its fascinating people and their complex past that rests precariously in the fast-changing realities of the post-Soviet modern world.
‘I suspect that here we have a classic, likely to inspire generations to yet unborn’
DERVLA MURPHY
First published in Viking by Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 2003
This electronic edition published in 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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