The First Emperor
T.H. Barrett, 10 November 1988
Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times
by Morris Rossabi.
California, 322 pp., £12.50, May 1988,0 520 05913 1 Show More
by Morris Rossabi.
California, 322 pp., £12.50, May 1988,
Searches for an Imaginary Kingdom: The Legend of the Kingdom of Prester John
by L.N. Gumilev, translated by R.E.F. Smith.
Cambridge, 403 pp., £37.50, February 1988,0 521 32214 6 Show More
by L.N. Gumilev, translated by R.E.F. Smith.
Cambridge, 403 pp., £37.50, February 1988,
“... the Crimea as their lost home. In the backwash from this tide some Europeans, too, were carried a long way from home, a motley selection of voluntary and involuntary flotsam and jetsam – Papal envoys, captured artisans, traders and professional soldiers – who traversed an empire of staggering size by Medieval standards, based on Central Asia but also ... ”
