Wild East
Subtitle: Travels in the New Mongolia
Contributors: Cover photo: David South Inside photos: David South and Liz Lawless
Publisher: Ecw Press
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781550224344
Subjects: Travel; Lawless, Jill; Travel - Foreign; Asia - Central; Asia - China; Description and travel; Mongolia; Social life and customs
Description: For most of us, the name Mongolia conjures up exotic images of wild horsemen, endless grasslands, and nomads - a timeless and mysterious land that is also, in many ways, one that time forgot. Under Ghengis Khan, the Mongols' empire stretched across Asia and into the heart of Europe. But over the centuries Mongolia disappeared from the world's consciousness, over-shadowed and dominated by its huge neighbours - first China, which ruled Mongolia for centuries, then Russia, which transformed the feudal nation into the world's second communist state.

Jill Lawless arrived in Mongolia in the 1990s to find a country waking from centuries if isolation, at once discovering its heritage as a nomadic and Buddhist society and discovering the western world.

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Table of contents: label: One
title: Stranger than paradise
pagenum: 1; label: Two
title: The outsiders
pagenum: 17; label: Three
title: The nomad and the carpetbagger
pagenum: 31; label: Four
title: Back to the future
pagenum: 41; label: Five
title: The school for scandal
pagenum: 47; label: Six
title: The four seasons
pagenum: 67; label: Seven
title: Young, wild, and free
pagenum: 81; label: Eight
title: The adventurers
pagenum: 95; label: Nine
title: Ghost towns
pagenum: 103; label: Ten
title: The king of the tabloids
pagenum: 115; label: Eleven
title: A hearty meal
pagenum: 129; label: Twelve
title: A stiff drink
pagenum: 145; label: Thirteen
title: The three manly sports
pagenum: 157; label: Fourteen
title: The space invaders
pagenum: 169; label: Fifteen
title: The falcon and the parrot
pagenum: 179; label: Sixteen
title: The abandoned monestery
pagenum: 191; label: Seventeen
title: How the mongols got their names back
pagenum: 201; label: Eighteen
title: The border
pagenum: 209; label: Niineteen
title: The end of the line
pagenum: 221