Spydus Search Results - Subject: Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 (Keywords)

The secret history of the Mongols / translated by Christopher P. Atwood.

Born a poor nomad in an unforgiving world, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan transformed the 13th century, ultimately ruling an empire that would stretch from Korea to Crimea and Syria to Siberia. Much of what we know about Chinggis comes from the horrified comments of foreign chroniclers, but there is one exceptional and authentic source: 'The Secret History of the Mongols', written after Chinggis's death to be read exclusively by the Mongolian imperial family (hence 'secret' to all other readers). This translation gives an unparalleled insight into one of the transformative moments in world history and a society where unchecked swagger, menace, and ambition lay side by side with unexpected tenderness and vulnerability.
Published: UK : Penguin Books, 2023.
432 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Penguin classics

Holborn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 950.2092 - Available - 30111069591823

Genghis Khan : the man who conquered the world / Frank McLynn.

Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols, describes Temujin's rise from boyhood outcast to Genghis Khan, and provides the most accurate and absorbing account yet of one of the most powerful men ever to have lived.
Author: McLynn, Frank
Published: London : The Bodley Head, 2015.
xxxvi, 646 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

Camden Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 GENG - Available - 30111068197994
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The Mongol Empire : Genghis Khan, his heirs and the founding of modern China / John Man.

Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of Asia. Under his grandson, Kublai Khan, the vision evolved into a more complex religious ideology, justifying further expansion. Kublai doubled the empire's size until, in the late 13th century, he and the rest of Genghis's 'Golden Family' controlled one fifth of the inhabited world. Charting the evolution of this vision, John Man provides a unique account of the Mongol Empire, from young Genghis to old Kublai, from a rejected teenager to the world's most powerful emperor.
Author: Man, John, 1941-
Published: London : Bantam Press, 2014.
xii, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 950.2 - Available - 30111067988278
Kilburn Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 950.2 - Available - 30111067988047
Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 950.2 - Available - 30111067984640

Empire of silver / Conn Iggulden.

Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend and his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain and made a capital for the new nation. Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis' sons has the strength to be khan.
Author: Iggulden, Conn
Published: London : Harper, 2011.
xiv, 446 p. : 1 ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Conqueror series

Kentish Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - HIS - Available - 30111050812345

Empire of silver / Conn Iggulden.

Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend and his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain and made a capital for the new nation. Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis' sons has the strength to be khan.
Author: Iggulden, Conn
Published: London : HarperCollins, 2010.
438 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Conqueror series

Camden Town Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - HIS - Available - 30111050692564

Lords of the bow [sound recording] / Conn Iggulden.

The second in 'The Conqueror Series', this novel is an epic story of Genghis Khan continuing to dominate the scene as he matures from the young boy of 'Wolf of the Plains' to the great Conqueror.
Author: Iggulden, Conn
Published: Bath : Oakhill, 2009.
13 sound discs (16 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

Camden Home Library Service - (Camden Libraries) - Talking Book - TB - Available - 30111043346492

Bones of the hills / Conn Iggulden.

This, the third book in the 'Conqueror' series, is once more an epic story. Genghis Khan is an exhilarating and heroic figure. The sense of his ambition and his power, the relationships with his wives, sons and trusted aides, the sweep of his conquests, is all brought together by a masterful storytelling.
Author: Iggulden, Conn
Published: London : HarperCollins, 2008.
518 p. : map ; 24 cm.
The conqueror series

West Hampstead Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - HIS - Available - 30111043495380

Lords of the bow / Conn Iggulden.

The second in 'The Conqueror Series', this novel is an epic story of Genghis Khan continuing to dominate the scene as he matures from the young boy of 'Wolf of the Plains' to the great Conqueror.
Author: Iggulden, Conn
Published: London : Harper, 2008.
536 p. : map ; 18 cm.
The conqueror series

West Hampstead Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - HIS - Available - 30111050386548

Treasure of Khan / Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler.

Genghis Khan - the greatest conqueror of all time, who, at his peak, ruled an empire that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. His conquests are the stuff of legend, his tomb a forgotten mystery. Until now. From the frigid lakes of Siberia to the hot wastes of the Gobi desert, Dirk Pitt is on the trail of fabled treasure ...Rescuing an oil survey team from a freak wave on Russia's Lake Baikal is all in a day's work for adventurers Dirk Pitt and partner Al Giordino. Yet when their ship is sabotaged and the survey team vanishes, Pitt is forced to get to the bottom of a mystery with far-reaching consequences.Soon he's on his way to Mongolia. There, a powerful and ruthless business tycoon holding an astonishing secret about Genghis Khan is hoping to emulate the legend's greatest conquests - but on a global scale!With the legacy of Khan and the lost treasures of Xanadu as the prize and the future security of the world at stake, Dirk Pitt for one isn't going to stand idly by ...
Author: Cussler, Clive
Published: London : Penguin, 2007.
684 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
A Dirk Pitt novel

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Fiction - FIC - Available - 30111050256477

Genghis Khan : and the making of the modern world / Jack Weatherford.

Jack Weatherford shows how Khan was the first ruler to grant religious freedom and how he instituted diplomatic immunity and outlawed torture. He demonstrates how Khan was responsible for uniting East and West, laying the foundations for the modern era of nation-states and global economic systems.
Author: Weatherford, J. McIver
Published: New York : Three Rivers, c2004.
312 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Queens Crescent Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 920 GENG - In-transit from Swiss Cottage Library to Queens Crescent Library (Set: 11 Apr 2024) - 30111067458850