The authoritative biography of the great Mongol warlord, by the author of GENGHIS KHAN and ATTILA.
John Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest
in Mongolia. After reading German and French at Oxford he did two
postgraduate courses, one in the history of science at Oxford , the
other in Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies in
London.
John has written acclaimed and highly successful biographies of
Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and Kublai Khan as well as Alpha Beta,
on the history of the alphabet, and The Gutenberg Revolution, on
the invention of printing. He is fast becoming one of the world's
most widely read historians.
" Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures
up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make
them live . . . a gripping present day quest."
- "Guardian" on Attilla
"Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures
up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make
them live . . . a gripping present day quest."
-"Guardian" on Attilla
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