Babar, who lived in the sixteenth century, was descended from both Tamerlane
and Genghis Khan
. The book incorporates his private, family story, and the story of his acquisition first of the kingdom of Ferghana...
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Jane Harvey
The title-page quotes James Beattie
. The action moves further afield than in JH
's previous works, to such places as London, Hampstead, and Cambridge. JH
here comes close to depicting a...
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Ella K. Maillart
This book describes Maillart's journey from Moscow (where she had gone to study film in 1930) to Russian Turkestan.
Turkestan refers to a region of Genghis Khan
's empire that runs from southern Mongolia...