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Grex History Item 36: Mongol Warriors
Entered by raven on Fri Dec 16 20:50:09 UTC 1994:

        I am interested in finding a book on the history of the Mongol
Warriors from the time of Genghis Kahn to Kuble Kahn.  Does anyone
have any suggestions?

8 responses total.

#1 of 8 by mdw on Sat Dec 17 00:10:53 1994:

Sure.  (1) a^2 public library.  (2) the UM library.  You might
also check out the local used book sellers, & borders.

#2 of 8 by mwarner on Sat Dec 17 01:16:08 1994:

If you can log onto Merit and get "Which Host" enter mirlyn to get the U-M
library network.  You should find a vast assortment of titles.  Then you
can try to Interlibrary Loan the title from any library that is convenient
to you.

#3 of 8 by rcurl on Sat Dec 17 07:50:04 1994:

I just did a telnet hermes.merit.edu from here, connected to mirlyn,
and looked up gengis. First item shown was

 Author:         Hoang, Michael.
 Title:          Gengis Khan
 Published:      London : Saqi, 1990.
 SUBJECT HEADINGS (Library of Congress; use s=):
                 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227--Juvenile literature.
                 Mongols--Kings and rulers--Biography--Juvenile literature.

#4 of 8 by kentn on Sat Dec 17 16:16:48 1994:

I hope juvenile literature will suffice  :)

#5 of 8 by marcvh on Sun Dec 18 06:13:25 1994:

I'd be a little curious about how you present an idea like that in 
juvenile literature, but probably would look elsewhere for real history. :-)

I know somebody who once saw a T-shirt with printing on the back to the effect
of "Mongol World Tour"; the text was probably something along the lines of:

   Persia         1221
   Georgia        1222
   Russia         1238
   Bulgaria       1240
   Poland         1241
   Hungary        1242
   Asia Minor     1243
   Western Europe  TBA

#6 of 8 by kentn on Sun Dec 18 16:57:39 1994:

Heh.

#7 of 8 by nephi on Wed Apr 5 13:22:45 1995:

Why the trashing of the juvenile leterature?  The stuff I've read
has been more straight-forward and concise than most anything else.
It's usually a good place to start, for people of any age.

#8 of 8 by gracel on Mon Apr 10 01:56:38 1995:

It depends on *how* juvenile the stuff really is.  If it's intended
for an intelligent high-school audience, it may be excellent -- just 
written with shorter sentences & more restrained vocabulary than
otherwise.  If it's intended for the typical second-grader (which
may be the kind of stuff that leaps to some people's minds when they 
hear "juvenile literature") then it might be fascinating but wouldn't
help much, probably wouldn't even have a bibliography.

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