Mongolia

Reading several fascinating books about Mongolia. Hearing Birds Fly by Louise Waugh provides a very down-to-earth report of this young English woman's three-year stay in Ulaanbaatar and later in a remote western village.

In the Empire of Genghis Khan by Stanley Stewart is the beautifully written story of a long and interesting journey beginning in Istanbul and culminating in his 1,000 mile trek on horseback across Mongolia.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford is a very readable account of a most unusual and intriguing time period that has influenced the world as we know it. Many of the inventions, ideas, and beliefs that we would consider "Western" have been introduced to the West from the Caucasus region and further east into Mongolia.