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Frontiers of Heaven: A Journey Beyond the Great Wall by Stanley Stewart
$7.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
For the Chinese, the Great Wall defined a psychological frontier. Within it lay the Celestial Kingdom, the compass of all civilization. Beyond lay a barbarian world of chaos and exile. Chinese journeys to the west, along the ancient Silk Road, were passages into the unknown, often into legend. Today the ...Show more
In the Empire of Genghis Khan by Stanley Stewart
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
As a child, award-winning travel writer Stanley Stewart dreamed of crossing Mongolia on horseback. This is the story of how that dream was fulfilled by following in the footsteps of a 13th-century Franciscan friar. Eight centuries ago the Mongols burst forth from Central Asia in a series of spectacular ...Show more
In the Empire of Genghis Khan - A journey among nomads by Stanley Stewart
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: good
Eight centuries ago, the Mongols burst forth from Central Asia in a series of spectacular conquests that took them from the Danube to the Yellow Sea. Their empire was seen as the final triumph of the nomadic barbarians. But in time, the Mongols sank back into the obscurity from which they had emerged, a ...Show more
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