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Recommended Reading
Andrews, Roy Chapman. Across Mongolian Plains. D. Appleton & Company, 1921.
Becker, Jasper. The Lost Country: Mongolia Revealed. Spectre, 1993.
Homeric, Frederic Dion, Will Hobson. The Blue Wolf: The Epic Tale of the Life of Genghis Khan and the Empire of the Steppes. April 2003.
Kahn, Paul. Secret History of the Mongols. January 1998.
Man, John. Genghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection. February 2007.
Ossendowski, Ferdinand. Beasts, Men and Gods. May 2006.
Thubron, Colin. Lost Heart of Asia. January 2000.
Weatherford, Jack. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. March 2005.
Extended Reading (English)
Baumann, Hans. Sons of the Steppe. Henry Z. Walck, Inc., New York, 1957
Bernstein, Richard Younghusband. The Last Great Imperial Adventurer.
Bodio, Stephen J. Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia. December 2003.
Cable, Mildred with Francesca French. The Gobi Desert. Beacon Press, 1987, first published 1942.
Cable, Mildred with Francesca French. Through the Jade Gate and Central Asia: An Account of Journeys in Kansu, Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. Hodder and Stoughton, 1937.
Coates, Tim (Editor). Travels in Mongolia, 1902: A Journey by C. W. Campbell, the British Consul in China. Uncovered Editions, April 2001.
Carruthers, Douglas. Unknown Mongolia: A record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1914
De Rachewiltz, Igor (Translator). Secret History of the Mongols: A Mongolian Epic Chronicle of the Thirteenth Century. September 2006.
Eliade, Mircea, translated by Willard R. Trask. Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return. Harper & Row, 1959, first published in French in 1949
Eliade, Mircea, translated by Willard R. Trask. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion. Harper & Row, 1959.
Eliade, Mircea, translated by Willard R. Trask. Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. Princeton University Press, 1972, first published in French in 1951.
Grousset, Renè, (translated by Naomi Walford). The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. Rutgers University Press, 1999. First published in French in 1939, first English edition 1970.
Hedin, Sven. Across the Gobi Desert. 1933
Haslund, Henning. Men & Gods in Mongolia. Adventures Unlimited Press, 1992. Originally published by Kegan Paul, London, 1935
Haslund, Henning. In Secret Mongolia. Adventures Unlimited Press, 1993. Originally published by Kegan Paul, London, 1934 as Tents in Mongolia.
Lamb, Harold. Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1927.
Lattimore, Owen. High Tartary. Kodansha International, 1994, first published 1930.
Lattimore, Owen & Eleanor. Silks, Spices and Empire: Asia Seen Through the Eyes of Its Discovers.
Lawless, Jill. Wild East: Travels in the New Mongolia. ECW Press, 2000.
Man, John. Gobi: Tracking the Desert. Phoenix Giant, 1997.
Morgan, David. The Mongols. Oxford: 1987.
Osprey Staff, Stephen Tumbull. Genghis Khan and the Mongol Conquests 1190-1400. July 2003
Polo, Marco, and Paul Smethurst (Introduction). The Travels of Marco Polo. Library of Essential Reading Series, July 2005 . Also translated and with an introduction by Ronald Latham. Penguin Books. 1958.
Rawicz, Slavomir. The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom. April 2006.
Rand, Christopher, Nostalgia for Camels.
Rayfield, Donald, The Dream of Lhasa : The Life of Przhezvalsky, Nikolay Explorer of Central Asia.
Roerich, George N. Trails to Innermost Asia: Five Years of Exploration with the Roerich Central Asian Expedition. Yale University Press, 1931.
Roerich, Nicholas. Altai Himalaya: Expedition Through India , Sinkiang, Altai Mongolia and Tibet. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1929.
Roerich, Nicholas. Heart of Asia: Memoirs from the Himalayas. Inner Traditions, 1990, first published 1929.
Rossabi, Morris. Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times.
Rossabi, Morris. Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West. Kodansha International, 1992.
Rossabi, Morris. Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists. April 2005
Urgunge Onon, Urgunge Onon (Translator). The Secret History of the Mongols: The Life and Times of Chinggis Khan. July 2001.
Films
The Cave Of The Yellow Dog. Directed by Byambasuren Davaa.
The Story Of The Weeping Camel. Directed by Luigi Falorni / Byambasuren Davaa.
Taiga. Directed by Ulrike Ottinger.