Lost Country: Mongolia Revealed - Hardcover

Becker, Jasper

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 034055665X ISBN 13: 9780340556658

Publisher: Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd, 1992

Synopsis

The author travels from Peking, across the centre of Asia to Leningrad, encountering a host of characters who enable him to piece together Mongolia's turbulent history. He uncovers the unique cultural heritage of a country hidden from the West until only recently. Along the way he uncovers Japanese attempts during World War II to place a descendant of Genghis Khan at the head of a new Mongolian state, recounts the horrors of Stalin's rule when 20 per cent of the population was liquidated and the monasteries were destroyed, discovers the real location of Shangri-La and visits the high mountains of the north where the last surviving shamans summon up the spirits of the dead.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 034055665X
• ISBN 13: 9780340556658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288