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MONGOLIA
Worth Looking For
Dateline Mongolia, An American Journalist in Nomad's Land
• Michael Kohn
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 346 PAGES
• COMING IN
Editor of the Mongol Messenger and enthralled with contemporary, mixed-up Mongolia, Kohn writes with wit and insight of not only the customs and nomadic traditions of the steppes but also the spirit of a nation confronting the modern world.
(MGL67, $17.95) |
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Gobi, Tracking the Desert
• John Man
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
1999 •
HARD COVER
• 232 PAGES
• COMING IN
Man, a British journalist, traveled the desert retracing the routes of early adventurers, scientists and explorers, and living with contemporary herdsmen (now sometimes on motorbikes). He blends the story of his travels with description and natural history of the region, including an excellent report on modern dinosaur hunters.
(MGL22, $32.00) |
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When Things Get Dark
• Matthew Davis
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 320 PAGES
• COMING IN
The young Peace Corps volunteer writes with directness of his two-year, life-changing stint as an ill-prepared English teacher in Mongolia, where he struggled with the brutal winter, unmotivated students and his own dark days.
(MGL70, $26.99) |
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The Story of the Weeping Camel
• Byambasuren Davaa
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2005 •
DVD
• COMING IN
The tale of nomadic Mongolian family, blending documentary and narrative. Springtime in the Gobi Desert, South Mongolia. A family of nomadic shepherds assists the births of their camel herd. One of the camels has an excruciatingly difficult delivery but, with help from the family, out comes a rare white colt. Despite the efforts of the shepherds, the mother rejects the newborn, refusing it her milk and her motherly love. When any hope for the little one seems to have vanished, the nomads send their two young boys on a journey through the desert, to a backwater town in search of a musician who is their only hope for saving the colt's life.
(MGL55, $27.95) |
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Men & Gods in Mongolia
• Henning Haslund
EXPLORATION •
1992 •
PAPER
• 358 PAGES
• COMING IN
A first-person account of travels among the Torgut Mongols by the Swedish explorer who accompanied Sven Hedin on his exploration of Mongolia and Central Asia in the 1920s and 1930s. Full of colorful incident of shamans, bandits and brigands, the book takes us to the lost city of Karatoka in the Gobi Desert and gives us a front row seat at the birth of a new nation.
(MGL16, $15.95) |
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