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80 years after...
80 years after, we know a voyage thru the Tibet, Chine and Mongolia for the eyes and the pen of a young lady. A different land and people, a great aventure, great images, someones hand-coloured.

A rich archive of treasures
In the early 1920s, explorer Janet Wulsin and her husband Frederick journeyed the far reaches of China and Tibet to study the people and the lands of these remote regions - the photos from their expedition come to life in this collection, along with several dozen hand-painted lantern slides that appear in color. Vanished Kingdomsis a rich archive of treasures which charts the findings and peoples of a bygone world. Any serious collection of Asian treasures - both art and cultural - will find Vanished Kingdoms an essential addition, unparalleled in scope and coverage. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. (Janet Elliott)    2. Asia - China    3. China    4. Discovery and exploration    5. Photo Essays    6. Photoessays & Documentaries    7. Photography    8. Photojournalism    9. Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Asia    10. Tibet (China)    11. Travel    12. Wulsin, Janet E    13. Wulsin, Janet E.    14. Inter-war period, 1918-1939    15. Other prose: from c 1900 -    16. Photographic reportage    17. Travel writing   

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Great information, great pictures
Like the Iran guide in this series, this book features good facts for people considering going to Mongolia, and enough pictures to make you seriously consider it.As with the Iran guide, it doesn't feature all the indepth fact and figures that would make it a helpful guide inside of the country, but it makes a great fact book.There's a brief section on the language in the back, oodles of address for getting a visa, and plenty of goregeous pictures.I can't think of a downside to this book, because it fulfills its purpose perfectly.Excellent work.

Best Mongolia guide on the market
Unfortunately this wasn't published until a few days after I got back from my trip.This guide contains excellent descriptions of the cities and sites, along with the historic background you need to really appreciate Mongolia in the 21st century.Reading it after I got back helped refresh my memory - and put names to some of the photographs I took.Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - China    2. Asia - General    3. Museums, Tours, Points of Interest    4. Travel    5. Travel - Foreign    6. Mongolia    7. Travel & holiday guides   

Editorial Review

In the steady hands of poet George Crane, previously unknown Zen master Tsung Tsai comes off as truly extraordinary. A "poet, philosopher, house builder, scientist, doctor, and when necessary, kung fu ass-kicker," Tsung Tsai would still be wandering about anonymously if it were not, Crane says, for the need of financing provided by an advance on this book. The last of the monks from his Chinese monastery, Tsung Tsai felt he had to return one last time to find and honor his master's bones and rekindle his tradition. Crane recounts their joint adventure, opening with Tsung Tsai's harrowing decades-earlier escape from newly communist China, walking from Inner Mongolia to Hong Kong through a war-torn, famine-struck, psychotic land, nearly starving along the way. Crane, a self-styled hedonist ne'er-do-well, who says that meditation makes him nauseous, sets the stage for an entrancing buddy story back to China with this highly disciplined but carefree Zen master. As their mutual affection grows, Crane absorbs Tsung Tsai's spare but demanding philosophy, which sustains them through the base poverty of northern China, a life-threatening 18-hour climb up and down a treacherous mountain, and a confrontation with a master of black magic. A page-turner and an eye-opener, Read more

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This Book Many Fun
That's how the Chinese monk Tsung Tsai, one of the main characters in the story, might describe this wonderful book with his broken English.I bought it as a change of pace from my usual reading material and it provided the escape I needed.Just a few pages into the story and I was addicted to it.I could visualize everything in the story as if I were there.No memoir can actually transmit the experience of the author, but this one comes close.I can't recommend it too highly.

A religious adventure of multilevel reading
It's difficult to say something original after 58 reviews! A book that get's so many is probably worth it.
Crane is everyman.
It is because of the humaness of the author that I found this book particularly fascinating.He is at once a seeker and a self confessed liar.Who of us isn't?I am so dreary of all of these books by those who have all of the answers.Crane, like the rest of us, doesn't even profess to know the questions.How refreshing.For all of us with the spirit of wanderlust and the desire to know things we can't even express, Crane is our very capable guide.May the god of his choice bless him. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Buddhism    3. Buddhism - Zen    4. China    5. General    6. New Age    7. Priest, Buddhist    8. Priests    9. Travel - General    10. Body, Mind & Spirit / New Age   

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Mongolia's development hotly debated
I think one of the reasons why this guide book comes in for criticisms has to do with Mongolia's mixed development since the collapse of communism. There was initially a great deal of optimism that the economy would take off and that Mongolia would become another asian tiger. At that time the Ghengis Khan hotel was thrown up. But in fact the country has endured a topsy turvy road to economic stability, with widespread poverty and crumbling infrastructure. People look at China, and its breakneck development, and think Mongolia must be improving at the same pace.
Extremely useful and complete
Some of the negative reviews on this website actually got me wondering whether I should buy this book or not. Now that I'm back from the trip, I have not doubt about it: it's pretty much a must. Had I not brought the book along, I would've had to keep borrowing other travelers' copies during my visit. The information's extremely useful and complete, whether you agree with every single comment or not. I'm not familiar with other similar guides on Mongolia in English, but every foreigner that I met there seemed to be carrying a copy of this one.

I have found this book to be very helpful.
I used this book to prepare for my visit to Mongolia and I continue to use it as a great reference resource while here. I have recommended "Lonely Planet Mongolia" to several others here visiting Mongolia. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - Central    2. Asia - China    3. Travel    4. Travel - Foreign    5. Mongolia    6. Travel & holiday guides   

Editorial Review

Living in Seattle and failing to make her mark as an actress, Erika Warmbrunn decides to chuck it all and go traveling. Her resulting novel, Read more

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Not the proverbial "ugly American"
Far too often discretion is overthrown in favor of "attitude". How refreshing to read a book that not only reflects thoughtfully on cross cultural respect and understanding, but avoids the self-indulgence that is all-too common in travelogues.
A Pageturner!
I enjoyed this book and oftentimes found the narrative absorbing.I was astonished by the contrasts particularly between Mongolia, with its frigid weather, expansive plains and childlike adults, and Vietnam, with its tropical beaches and aggressive, war-weary toddlers!Attention to detail really enlivened the book.I particularly liked the linguistic asides and descriptions of different foods.I always looked forward to the pictures, although I sorely missed a photo of Beijing.The chapter about the author's trip over a dangerous Chinese mountain on her way to Xiangning was loaded with suspense!But then there was no resolution.After her harrowing experience, we needed to see her actually arrive in Xiangning. I'm not Lance
The good news is, I really liked this book.The bad news is that when I finished it I quit my job, sold the house, drained my IRA and bought a bicycle.Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - General    2. Bicycle touring    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. China    7. Cycling - General    8. Description and travel    9. Essays & Travelogues    10. Mongolia    11. Vietnam    12. Women    13. ASIA    14. East Asia, Far East    15. South East Asia    16. Travel writing   

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Get's the job done
I bought this map to plan an upcoming trip because it is so difficult to find a good map of Mongolia online.So far it has done the trick but I haven't been on the ground yet. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Maps    2. Mongolia    3. Travel / road maps & atlases   

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Well done.
Nice book - for once a travel author who isn't full of her (him)self and bores us with the difficulties of adaptating to a different culture or who has to show off her/ his magnificent sense of humor. Simple and well written and most importantly captures the magic of the place and its people. Thanks!

teaching and learning in mongolia
At the moment I am fascinated by Mongolia so reading online reviews and surfing the web I thought this book to be a must. It actually is! Louisa Waugh is a modern Margaret Mead, she tries living in this remote mongolian village participating to the life, but without interfering and without judging, and when that happens she underlines and regrets it. Can this book be called a work of modern anthropology? It goes near to it. I would have liked a more detailed description of the population and the ethnic differences between the Kazakhs and the Tuvans, but that would have made this book a textbook of social studies, which it really doesn't want to be. The simplicity and modesty of this unusual life experience is touching. The author talks about herself (very little)and mostly about the other women she meets. The Prize the book won is extremely appropriate because the spirit of the place is really the book's main character.

great MONGOLIANLIFE!
could not put book down... really helped to understand 'the mongolian way'..... a keeper! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - China    2. Asia - Far East    3. Description And Travel    4. Essays & Travelogues    5. Travel    6. Travel - Foreign    7. Travel - General    8. MONGOLIA_DESCRIPTION AND TRAVEL    9. Mongolia    10. Travel / Asia / Central    11. Travel writing   

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A Road to Eagle Hunting and Freedom
This book came in with others on Mongolia I had ordered a month ago and so I thought it was just another aspect of this fascinating country I am presently dedicating my attention to. Instead, as usual, generalization is not for human sprit. Opening the book I found out this naturalist grew up in New England as I did, he has italian chromosomes and is a novel Federick II. Immediate simpathy arised. So I dived into this unknown ornitological world (by the way I am scared of birds and I live with terror of an annoying pidgeon that once in a while comes into my kitchen).
A book for anyone with a dream
I don't hunt or fish or tramp around in the wilderness but, despite that, I was entranced by this book - couldn't put it down.To me, it's a story of how one person, in this case a brilliant and engaging writer, managed to achieve a dream he'd held since childhood.Bodio is such a fine (and funny!) storyteller that he makes one of the world's most exotic places accessible without making it a bit less exotic.Hunting with eagles in Mongolia doesn't have to be your dream for this book to be one you'll treasure, just like you didn't have to fish for trout to love "A River Runs Through It." I highly recommend this book.

A Tribute to Wild Freedom
I was a junior in college when my dad sent me a copy of a new magazine he had started receiving at home called Gray's Sporting Journal. An English student and avid sportsman, I turned immediately to the book review section. Typically, I did not expect much from a sporting magazine's book review; seldom did these reviews actually convey much critical information. Read more

Subjects:  1. Essays & Travelogues    2. Pictorials    3. Travel    4. Travel - General    5. Birds & birdwatching    6. Hunting or shooting animals & game    7. Mongolia    8. Travel / Pictorials    9. Travel writing   

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Jerusalem to Xanadu on $1100
William Dalrymple travelled 12,000 miles overland from Jerusalem to Xanadu in order to retrace the journey of Marco Polo, and I think the Venetian probably had the easier trip---in 1271 Marco Polo didn't have to smuggle himself along the Silk Route by burrowing into the back of a coal truck.
A modern-day epic journey
This is an excellent first book by someone who's made quite a name for himself in travel writing - William Dalrymple. "In Xanadu" relates his journey following in the footsteps of Marco Polo to Xanadu, the old capital of the Mongolian empire. This was accomplished while he was a student at Cambridge and he got the idea because this was the first time most of the Karakorum highway was open to travellers, enabling him to follow about 80% of Polo's route for the first time in centuries. In Xanadu
I enjoyed the reviews of this book, pretty funyy. This is a pretty good travel book; I like travel writing and have read a lot of it.Dalrymple's work is as good as anyone else.In addition to this, I recommend Caroline Alexander's "The Way to Xanadu."Dalrymple follows Marco Polor to Xanadu; Alexander follows Coleridge.Both end up at the same place, but follow very different routes to get there.Dalrymple follows Marco Polo's route along the silk road and he shares some pretty interesting history of all the places he visits.Alexander visits the places mentioned in Coleridge's diary in the period just before he wrote the fragment of a poem about Xanadu, which leads her to a variety of places including Florida, amazingly enough. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Travel    2. ASIA    3. Central Asia    4. Middle East    5. Mongolia    6. Travel writing   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Travel    3. Travel - General    4. Travel / General   

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Refreshing tale of fearless adventure
Angus' straightforward and readable tale of daring adventure and relentless stamina is a refreshing insight into one of the least documented regions of earth. Impersonation ---- URGENT
I am very concerned that a review of the book "Lost in Mongolia" by my son, Colin Angus, appears under my name in one of a series of reader reviews on your web-site.My name is Valerie Spentzos, and I DO live on Vancouver Island, but there is no way in the world that I would submit a review, plagiarized at that, on any web-site, for a book by a family member.Colin and I believe that someone is using my name (easily discovered in the book), to discredit his favourable reviews.Kindly remove this review, which I certainly did NOT write, from the web-site, and if possible, print my disclaimer, as such dishonesty is really reprehensible.

Magnificent!!
I received this book on Christmas day and, much to the dismay of the rellies, I finished it on the same day.As the miserable weather outside lashed at the windows and my Aunt Jennifer babbled about napkin handling etiquette, I was far removed to another world; a land of gushing rivers, Russian mafia, indigenous people, and non-stop action."Lost in Mongolia" is a true modern-day adventure and Angus vividly details the trials and tribulations that he and his team encounter as they attempt to become the first to fully navigate the length of the world's fifth longest river.It is obvious that the quest to be "first" comes secondary to the team's desire to simply get out and explore the most remote regions of our planet from a unique perspective.Angus' strongest writing comes through as he describes the varied characters that they enounter the whole way down the river.For me, the most haunting moment came near the end where, at 71 degrees lattitude in the perpetual grey twilight of the tundra, they come across a scattering of human bones, remnants of Stalin's period of terror.And amongst the bones a small rotted leather shoe is found, obviously from a little girl.It is a mystery that leaves the reader feeling uncomfortable, juxtaposed near the team's triumphant ending at the Arctic Ocean.Read more

Subjects:  1. Angus, Colin    2. Essays & Travelogues    3. General    4. Mongolia    5. Rafting (Sports)    6. Russia    7. Russia (Federation)    8. Travel    9. Travel - General    10. Yenisey River    11. Travel / Adventure   

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Weird but Good
This book starts awkwardly but smooths out by the second chapter. Then it rolls along until the end as mostly just a long, cool story about the crazy thing this guy did.It ends well because he keeps the obligatory "how-this-thing-chaged-my-life" bit short.
actually, a good balance between golf & mongolia
there's more mongolia than golf in this book.when you're only using one club size, the topics are more about mongolia.
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Subjects:  1. Anecdotes    2. Asia - Far East    3. Description And Travel    4. Essays & Travelogues    5. Golf    6. Golf - General    7. Mongolia    8. Sports    9. Sports & Recreation    10. Tolmâe, Andrâe    11. Travel    12. Sports & Recreation / Golf   

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Adventure Anywhere
Jessica Maxwell has a knack for finding adventure on her way to the refrigerator. Fortunately for her readers, she chooses to venture further away from home and take us along as we whisk from page to page. Maxwell shows us that adventure is trying something new, whether flyfishing in Mongolia or bracing the rapids and fears of whitewater rafting. Through her refreshing literary style, I felt like I was trotting after her in Alaska, Ireland, Italy and elsewhere. Most of all, the book is a fabulous reminder that adventure is in the eye of the adventurer, and to step outside one's comfort level brings life's richest rewards.

Adventure Anywhere
Jessica Maxwell has a knack for finding adventure on her way to the refrigerator. Fortunately for her readers, she chooses to venture further away from home and take us along as we whisk from page to page. Maxwell shows us that adventure is trying something new, whether it's flyfishing in Mongolia or bracing the rapids and fears of whitewater rafting. Her refreshing literary style creates a sense of place that allowed me to tag along to Alaska, Ireland, Italy and elsewhere. Most of all, the book is a fabulous reminder that adventure is in the eye of the adventurer, and to step outside one's comfort level leads to life's richest rewards.

Adventure for Girls
I resented the hell out of this book, and about midway through I realized why.It's not really adventure writing - it's adventure writing *for girls*.Most of these articles would only qualify as fluff or travel pieces, or maybe reflective essays, if they'd been written by men.Because the author is a woman - well, because she's a woman, a trip to Venice qualifies as adventure.A drive in Ireland qualifies as adventure.Fishing in Canada qualifies as adventure.In other words, this is an adventure travel book that only features travel - and fear.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1955-    2. 20th Century Description And Travel    3. Essays & Travelogues    4. Maxwell, Jessica,    5. Outdoor Life    6. Outdoor Skills    7. Sailing - Narratives    8. Sports & Recreation    9. Travel    10. Travel - General    11. Voyages and travels    12. Women's Studies - General    13. Journeys    14. Maxwell, Jessica    15. Travel writing   

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Not meant for backpackers
When I decided on buying this book over the standard travel books, like the Lonely Planet series, I was looking for something different and perhaps more personal it its descriptions.This book is certainly informative and includes personal descriptions (often at the sacrifice of more usable information), but it really didn't do a good job of representing what I saw in Mongolia.The price estimates were ertemely over-inflated (a welcome surprise), and the maps didn't help at all.I suspect this book is meant for a different type of traveler, and not the young backpacker set which I was among in Mongolia.Its still a good read, but should not be the lone source of travel info. about this magnificent country. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - General    2. Guidebooks    3. Mongolia    4. Travel    5. Travel - Foreign    6. Travel & holiday guides    7. Travel / Asia / General   

Editorial Review

If you're of a certain age, you likely went through a dinosaur phase as a kid, perhaps even dreaming of turning up the bones of stegosauruses, tyrannosauruses, and other famed creatures of the Age of Reptiles. In this affectionate memoir of "a life in the field," paleontologist Michael Novacek writes of his early years entertaining such dreams and of his ongoing education in the ways of the "terrible lizards."Read more

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fascinating and well written
My freshman year in college, I decided to indulge my interest in dinosaurs and earth history by taking a *rocks for jocks* geology class. It was fascinating. I learned (and sadly haven't really retained) all kinds of info on rock formations, evolution, and paleontology. When I read the excerpts of this book a few months ago, I noted the author and bought the book when it came out. Novacek is a world famous paleontologist who takes us on a journey of his past field work and interweaves that with info on the animals whose bones he uncovers along with the geology of the sites he's worked. He also throws in some hilarious stories of adventures in fossil hunting that make me quite happy to stay home and leave the actual travels to him.
A life in the field...
Michael Novacek must be a very interesting person, judging from "Time Traveller," which he describes as "a book not about a life, but about a life in the field."Starting from his childhood in California, he relates the story of his start as a young paleontologist (moving from a background as an indifferent student and an unsuccessful rock musician) working in the American West and Baja California.Most of the digs take place in unpleasant locations, fraught with heat, scorpions and dreadful food.As he moves up the academic ladder, the digs become much more exotic and he heads out to Patagonia (where it is cold and windy instead of hot and accidents with horses can happen, but the food is still of varying quality), then to Yemen (where there are not even any interesting fossils to make up for the sheer awfulness of the place), Mongolia and Argentina.It appears that extreme physical fitness is a prerequisite for those wishing to enter this profession. "A personal attachment to rocks and bones"
Novacek's "attachment" for lithics and fossil evidence has led him to remote places.Raised in the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, he was introduced to the wild, quickly finding excuses to return.Paleontology is easily the best excuse available for travel and exploration.He invites us to join him as he tours the North American West - into mountains, canyons and plateaus where fossils have emerged before.From this familiar territory he goes on to more exotic sites.His explorations reach from Andean highlands through Arabia deserts to the mysterious Mongolian plateaus.It was the latter that gave Novacek the greatest rewards and kept him occupied for more than a decade.This autobiography of a professional paleontologist provides interesting insights into the researchers depicting the prehistoric realm. Read more

Subjects:  1. Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures    2. Fossils    3. General    4. Nature    5. Nature/Ecology    6. Paleontology    7. Paleontology (General)    8. Science    9. Dinosaurs & the prehistoric world    10. Palaeontology    11. Popular science    12. Science / Paleontology   

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Clever Title; Clever Book
For years Mykel Board had wanted to go to Outer Mongolia. He realized that dream in 1995 when he went there to teach English at the National University in Ulaanbaatar. EVEN A DAUGHTER IS BETTER THAN NOTHING is the result of his stay. This volume is not like any other travel writing you will read. It is at once hilarious, I suspect at times hyperbolic as well as downright moving in places. He writes with obvious affection for the people he encountered on his year there; and even though he lands in a country far removed from anything he has even encountered--"this is Mongolia"-- he is never condescending.
A Fascinating Mongolian Idiom
This is an incredibly hilarious and educational adventure at the far frontiers of modern culture. Author Board really does put you right there in the middle of this strange country, and he does so with a dry yet frantic wit and a sincere fondness for this ancient land and its people. This is a book full of adventure and surprise and humor from a writer who is a cross between Davy Crockett and Oscar Wilde! Wonderfully entertaining.

a wonderful read
Cover to cover, Mykels book pushes the reader on and on. Excitement and surprise on every page. Many of those who have traveled to exotic countries will relate to his book of adventure and English teaching in Mongolia. From the start Mykel seems at odds with his environment, not unlike anyone of us who has been there, or somewhere similar. Great wit and humour in Mykles diary of a year teaching and 'living' in Mongolia is also compressed with the stark loneliness and isolation of this very foriegn country and its reamarkable people. A book to keep, and read over and over again. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - China    2. Asia - General    3. Board, Mykel    4. Description And Travel    5. Mongolia    6. Travel    7. Travel - Foreign    8. Travel / General   

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New age Fake ethnic
Good, but I had trouble keeping up with the names of the white guys.Seems like someone is always leaving and someone is always arriving, the pictures only confuses me more, because I would try in vain to match up the name with a picture.

Beautifully written, funny, engaging, terrific reading!
Russia's Lake Baikal is the largest, deepest, oldest, and cleanestfreshwater lake in the world. It's size is greater than all of five of theNorth American Great Lakes combined and home to more than 1,500 species oflife known nowhere else in the world. Bartle Bull led the first expeditionto ever circumnavigate Lake Baikal. While on this epic sojourn, he and histeam mapped the devastating impact of human development and industry onthis wild and pristine ecosystem. Around The Sacred Sea: Mongolia And LakeBaikal on Horseback is the incredible and riveting story of this valianttrek, an exploration of Baikal's history, ecology, and culture, and well asan informative and engaging survey of incredible and unique plant andanimal life. Beautifully written, funny, occasionally suspenseful, AroundThe Sacred Sea is a unique, engaging, informative, exciting, page-turner ofan uncommon, true-life adventure story, ideal reading for the armchairtraveler and inspiring for the globe trotter set.

Buy this book
Around The Sacred Sea tells of the author's extrodinary feat of riding horseback completely around Lake Baikal.The book draws you in right from the prologue. Bartle Bull is an excellent writer, who not only describes inbeautiful detail the sights, sounds, people and animals he and his friendsencounter during the expedition, through his words he brings the readeralong with him. I have never been even near Lake Baikal, but I feel like Ihave. There were moments of danger that had me flipping ahead in the bookto make sure everything turned out alright. There were sad moments andthere were drunk moments and there were irate moments and there were happymoments. And I felt every single one of them. The book is also illustratedwith beautiful photographs taken during the adventure. I loved this book.This book is a must have for people anxious to take their own adventures,people who have any interest in Russia and Lake Baikal and for people whowant to have adventures while they are safe and secure at home. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Baikal, Lake    2. Baikal, Lake (Russia)    3. Bull, Bartle    4. Description and travel    5. Essays & Travelogues    6. Journeys    7. Lakes & Ponds    8. Mongolia    9. Reference - General    10. Russia    11. Russia (Federation)    12. Travel    13. Travel - General    14. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    15. Travel writing   

Subjects:  1. Calfee, Julia    2. Individual Photographer    3. Mongolia    4. Photography    5. Pictorial works    6. Pictorials    7. Scenic Photo Collections    8. Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Asia    9. Travel    10. Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -    11. Journeys    12. Photographs: collections   

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Ian Myles Slater on: A Period Piece
I have a copy of the 1921 Blue Ribbon "popular' edition (possibly an undated later reprinting) of "Across Mongolian Plains," and will not contribute to the debate on the quality of the paperback edition (see the two earlier reviews). I do think it is important to point out that the book belongs to the early twentieth century, and reflects its values. Readers should be prepared to make allowances for this, or not bother. Of course, those who pass it by will be missing some first-class storytelling.
A great book
I found nothing wrong with either the book or the printing.This is a simply fabulous book, from either the viewpoint of a real-life adventure story, or for historical details for somebody studying the period.

Great Book Ruined by Publisher
Across Mongolian Plains is one of the classic accounts of early 20th Century Hunting in Central Asia.It is also an excellent account of Mongolia prior to the Communist takeover in 1923.I can find no faults with the book as written by Andrews.However, my personal opinion of this edition is that it is not worth the money asked for it.It is a poorly made paperback, and the publisher has not reproduced any of the original photographs with the one exception being the frontis, which in my copy looks like a cheesy Xerox.This book is still available in the 1920's Blue Ribbon reprint, in hardback with photos for less than this "new" paperback.I am VERY dissapointed with this edition.Save your money and search out an original copy, you will find it far more satisfying.The first edition D. Appleton & Co. edition is still available as well. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - China    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Travel    4. Travelers    5. China    6. Travel & holiday guides