Kublai Khan
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In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure dome decree Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0593054490
ISBN13:9780593054499
Release Date:May 2006
Publisher:Bantam Press
Length:383 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
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Fantastic book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I'm almost finished this book in less than a week and I have enjoyed every page. It is a fascinating story and brilliantly written. Not knowing a thing about Kublai Khan it was very satisfying to learn about the completion of the Mongol conquests of Central Asia, the Middle East and China, with the final debacle in Japan. The book reads like an adventure novel with mind bogglingly vast distances and numbers of people involved. Learning about the history of many countries there is often reference to the Mongols, so to read about it from their perspective really fills out the picture. There are many vignettes which give a personal insight into the characters involved in these exploits and Man sometimes describes sites, such as the ruins of Xanadu, as they are today. I thoroughly recommend this wonderful book to any reader
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