Author: Michael Kohn
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: guide, country, mongolia
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 1740593596
ISBN-13: 9781740593595

Let the adventure begin! Ride a camel across the sun-scorched Gobi, feast by moonlight at the bottomless lake of Uureg Nuur, and experience traditional archery and wrestling at the Naadam Festival. Escape to the ends of the earth in the footsteps of the first Mongol nomads. All you need is a strong pair of boots and this bestselling guidebook. • FIND YOUR WAY - detailed maps and GPS coordinates for hundreds of key sites • CONNECT WITH THE LOCALS and sleep in a ger, Mongolia’s famous felt-tent abode - expanded reviews describe the country’s best ger camps • STRIDE

Author: A. M. Pozdneyev
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: altaic, amp, uralic, mongols, mongolia
Number of Pages: 998
Published: 1997-07-29
List price: $450.00
ISBN-10: 0700708618
ISBN-13: 9780700708611

Part of a series that offers mainly linguistic and anthropological research and teaching/learning material on a region of great cultural and strategic interest and importance in the post-Soviet era.

Author: Jennifer L. Hanson
Publisher: Facts on File
Keywords: transition, nations, mongolia
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-12
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0816052212
ISBN-13: 9780816052219

Author: A.B Dergunov
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: mongolia, metallogeny, magmatism, tectonics
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-10-11
List price: $280.00
ISBN-10: 0415267277
ISBN-13: 9780415267274

This volume provides the first systematic description of the most important geological structures of Mongolia and discusses the main features of these structures and their interactions. The main characteristics of magmatism are described for each stage of tectonic development and the evolution of magmatism is considered with reference to lithosphere development. Mongolia is a key region of the world and this volume provides a primary source of reference for postgraduates and researchers.

Author: Jane Blunden
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
Keywords: guide, travel, bradt, mongolia
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-08-21
List price: $27.99
ISBN-10: 1841621781
ISBN-13: 9781841621784

Outer Mongolia is one of the few places on earth where travelers can still explore with a true sense of adventure. Vast tracts of this ‘land of blue sky’ can be discovered on the back of horse or camel – in true Genghis Khan-style – or in the comfort of four-wheel drive.  Riding, climbing, fishing, biking and rafting are all covered, as well as how to make the most out of your stay and enjoy nomadic ger hospitality.

Author: Gerard Chaliand
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: danube, mongolia, empires, nomadic
Number of Pages: 147
Published: 2006-02-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1412805554
ISBN-13: 9781412805551

Nomadic Empires sheds new light on 2,000 years of military history and geopolitics. The Mongol Empire of Genghis-Khan and his heirs was the greatest empire in world history. For 2,000 years, from the fifth century B.C. to the fifteenth century A.D., the steppe areas of Asia, from the borders of Manchuria to the Black Sea, were a “zone of turbulence,” threatening settled peoples from China to Russia and Hungary, including Iran, India, the Byzantine empire, and even Syria. It was a true world stage that was affected by these destructive nomads variously called Indo-Europeans, Turkic peoples,

Author: Jasper Becker
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Keywords: land, untamed, travels, mongolia
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1845116496
ISBN-13: 9781845116491

For seventy years Mongolia was all but closed to the west - a forbidden country, shrouded in darkness. Jasper Becker had long dreamed of exploring the sweeping land that lay just beyond China’s Great Wall and when communism disintegrated, he finally did. Setting out from Kublai Khan’s capital, Beijing, Becker was one of the first westerners to cross the border. Tracing the course of the Yellow River, he ventured deep into the heart of Mongolia, witnessing the birth of one of the world’s youngest democracies as well as the deep and tragic impact of the rules of Mao and Stalin on the Mongo