Boeken over Mongolië
Dit is een overzicht met boeken van buitenlandse auteurs over Mongolië.
Zie ook het overzicht van boeken van Nederlandse auteurs.
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The Wild EastTravels in the New Mongolia
Paperback | 320 Pagina's | Summersdale Publishers | 2002
A country awakens to find its place in the new millennium... 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 Genghis Khan, the
Mongols' empire stretched across Asia and into the heart of Europe.
But over the centuries Mongolia disappeared from the world's consciousness,
overshadowed 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 late 1990s to find a country waking from centuries
of isolation, at once rediscovering its heritage as a nomadic and Buddhist
society and simultaneously discovering the western world. The result
is a land of fascinating, bewildering contrasts: a vast country where
nomadic herders graze their sheep and yaks on the steppe, it also has
one of the world's highest literacy levels and a burgeoning high-tech
scene. While trendy teenagers rollerblade amid the Soviet apartment
blocks of Ulaanbaatar and dance to the latest pop music in nightclubs,
and the rich drive Mercedes and surf the Internet, more than half the
population still lives in felt tents, scratching out a living in one
of the world's harshest landscapes.Mongolia, it can be argued, is the
archetypal 21st-century nation, a country waking from a tumultuous 20th
century in which it was wrenched from feudalism to communism to capitalism,
searching for its place in the new millennium. This is a funny and revealing
portrait of a beautiful, troubled country whose fate holds lessons for
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Hearing Birds FlyA Year in a Mongolian Village
288 Pagina's | UK Edition | 2003 Louisa Waugh's passionately written account of her time in a remote Mongolian village. Frustrated by the increasingly bland character of the capital city of Ulan Bator, she yearned for the real Mongolia and got the chance when she was summoned by the village head to go to Tsengel far away in the west, near the Kazakh border. Her story transports the reader to the glacial cold and the wonders of the Seven Kings as they steadily emerge from the horizon. Through her we sense their trials as well as their joys, rivalries and even hostilities, many of which the author shared or knew about. Waugh's time in the village was marked by coming to terms with the harshness of climate and also by how she faced up to new feelings towards the treatment of animals, death, solitude and real loneliness, and the constant struggle to censor her reactions as an outsider. Above all, she aims to involve readers with the locals' lives in such a way that we come to know them and care for their fates. |
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In het rijk van Djenghis KhanEen reis onder nomaden
Paperback | 335 Pagina's | Atlas, Uitgeverij | Atlas | 2003 |
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