Books, Travel, Asia, Mongolia

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Marco Polo
The Travels of Marco Polo (Unabridged)
by audible.com (Audio Download)

Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy.

Michael Kohn
Mongolia (Country Guide)
by Lonely Planet (Paperback)

Discover MongoliaCling to your camel as a Gobi sandstorm sweeps pastLearn the 'three manly sports' while visiting nomad families on a Ger-to-Ger adventureHonor the sky gods with the famous vodka dip-and-flick ritualStretch out your vocal cords with a throat-singing lesson in ChandmaniIn This Guide:Our intrepid author conducted 180 days' research, covered 8259km and drank 135 cups of salty milk teaNew Outdoors chapter details activities from cycling the Chinggis Khaan trail to horse trekking in the steppes

Alan J. K. Sanders, J. Bat-Ireedui, Lonely Planet Phrasebooks
Mongolian: Lonely Planet Phrasebook
by Lonely Planet (Paperback)

As the traveler at a neighboring table struggles with the menu, you're glad you came equipped with your phrasebook. Not only did you order your meal with ease, you're also sure of what's coming. You smile as the waiter brings your dish and say en minii zakhialsan khool bish... Travel with confidence, using language as your guide.Our phrasebooks give you a comprehensive mix of practical and social words and phrases in more than 120 languages. Chat with the locals and discover their culture - a guaranteed way to enrich your travel experience.

Louisa Waugh
Hearing Birds Fly: A Nomadic Year in Mongolia
by Little, Brown Book Group (Paperback)

A wonderfully accessible memoir of an inaccessible country: Outer Mongolia.

Helen Thayer
Walking the Gobi: 1,600 Mile-trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair
by Mountaineers Books (Hardcover)

By the bestselling author of Polar Dream (more than 40,000 copies sold) At the age of 63, Helen Thayer fulfilled her lifelong dream of crossing Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Accompanied by her 74-year-old husband Bill and two camels, Tom and Jerry, Thayer walked 1600 miles in 126-degree temperatures, battling fierce sandstorms, dehydration, dangerous drug smugglers, and ubiquitous scorpions. For more than 60 days Helen struggled to keep moving through this inhospitable terrain despite a severe leg injury. Without sponsors, a support team, or radio contact, hers is a journey of pure discovery and adventure.Walking the Gobi takes readers on a trip through a little-known landscape and introduces them to the culture of the nomadic people whose ancestors have eked out an existence in the Gobi for thousands of years. Thayer's respect and admiration for the culture of Gobi and her gentle weaving of natural history shine throughout this remarkable story. The author ...

George Crane
Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia
by Bantam (Paperback) (Release Date: 2001-05-29)

Stephen J. Bodio
Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia
by The Lyons Press (Hardcover)

In praise of books by the author: "Bodio writes like Pavarotti sings. He is a master." --Tony Hillerman (for Querencia)"Stephen Bodio has written an unpretentious yet thrilling book about falconry, one of man's oldest and most mysterious alliances in the natural world; and he takes us afield under the wild skies of birds of prey." --Thomas McGuane (for A Rage for Falcons)"Fascinating, funny, sad, beautiful . . . Aloft is full of wonderful images and energy." --Annie ProulxWhen Stephen Bodio was a young boy in the early 50's he saw an image in National Geographic which became forever etched in his mind: it was a photograph of a Kazakh nomad, dressed in a long coat and wearing a fur hat, holding a huge tame eagle on his fist. And a life-long fascination with Central Asia was born.Mongolia, a vast country located between Siberia and China and little known to outsiders, was long under Soviet domination and inaccessible to westerners. When it became independent in 1990 Bodio began ...

International Travel Maps and Books
Mongolia Map by ITMB (International Travel Maps)
by International Travel Maps and Books (Map)

Paper folded road and travel map in color. Scale 1:2,500,000. Distinguishes roads ranging from main roads (paved) to other roads (usually unpaved). Legend includes permanent tracks (unpaved), railways, international boundaries, province boundaries, mountain peaks, springs, caves, points of interest, official tourist resorts, official camp sites, nature sights, international airports, other airfields, sand dunes, nature reserves (approximate boundary), mountain passes. Includes inset map of Ulaanbaatar, index of Mongolia places and meaning of important terms.

Colin Angus
Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River
by Broadway (Paperback) (Release Date: 2003-09-09)

From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it. Exploration is Colin Angus’ calling. It is not only the tug of excitement and challenge that keeps sending him on death-defying journeys down some of the world’s most powerful waterways, it is a desire to know a place more intimately than you could from the window of a train, to feel the soul of a place. Angus emphasizes that rivers have always been key to the development of complex societies and the rise of civilizations, offering as they do irrigation, transportation, hydroelectric power, and food. But, as Lost in Mongolia captures with breathtaking detail, while they giveth plenty, the great rivers also taketh away in an instant. In Lost in Mongolia, Colin Angus takes readers through never-before-seen ...

James Prosek
Fly-Fishing the 41st: From Connecticut to Mongolia and Home Again: A Fisherman's Odyssey
by Harper Paperbacks (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-02-17)

The New York Times has called James Prosek "the Audubon of the fishing world," and in Fly-Fishing the 41st, he uses his talent for descriptive writing to illuminate an astonishing adventure. Beginning in his hometown of Easton, Connecticut, Prosek circumnavigates the globe along the 41st parallel, traveling through Spain, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Japan. Along the way he shares some of the best fishing in the world with a host of wonderfully eccentric and memorable characters.

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