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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Mongolia | Chingis Khan Rides West | Update






















An updated version of Chingis Khan Rides West: The Mongol Invasion of Bukhara, Samarkand, and other Great Cities of the Silk Road, 1215-1221 is now available. See a free excerpt: Jochi’s March Down the Syr Darya and the Flight of Temür Malik.







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Mongolia | Chingis Khan Rides West | Update

An updated version of Chingis Khan Rides West: The Mongol Invasion of Bukhara, Samarkand, and other Great Cities of the Silk Road, 1215-1221 is now available. See a free excerpt: Jochi’s March Down the Syr Darya and the Flight of Temür Malik.

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Books By Don Croner

  • Wanders on the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) From Cumberland, Maryland, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Cumberland to Frostburg, including the GAP Towns of Cumberland, Mount Savage, and Frostburg
  • Wanders in Venice: The Early Life of Enrico Dandolo, Mastermind of the Fourth Crusade and the 1204 Sack of Constantinople
  • False Lama of Mongolia: The Life and Death of Dambijantsan
  • The Life Of Zanabazar: First Bogd Gegeen of Mongolia
  • Chingis Khan Rides West: The Mongol Invasion of Bukhara, Samarkand, and other
  • Seven Saints of Bukhara: The Khwajagan, or Masters of Wisdom
  • Eccentric Hungarian Wanderer-Scholar Csoma de Körös
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  • Wanders in the Khentii Mountains of Mongolia: Saridag Khiid and Yestiin Hot Springs
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