Genghis Khan: Epic and Legendary Leaders

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The story behind the mythic brutality of Genghis Kahn, one of the most successful leaders in human history. A new title in the series created for the modern reader, introducing the heroes, cultures, myths and religions of the world. The tale of the legendary Mongol General Genghis Khan is as phenomenal as the man himself. Probably the greatest conqueror in history, he ruled vast swathes of land in the early 1200s, vanquishing people across Asia and Europe, so that by the mid-1200s the Mongol Empire covered over 12 million square miles of land. 10 b/w illustrations

David Curtis Wright (PhD, Princeton), Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary, specializes in the history of imperial China's interactions with its pastoral nomadic neighbours, particularly but not exclusively the Mongols. He is the author of From War to Diplomatic parity in Eleventh-Century China: Sung's Foreign Relations with Kitan Liao, and is currently finishing a history of the final few years of the Mongol conquest of China. Jake Jackson is General Editor of The World's Greatest Myths and Legends series, with titles including 'Myths of Babylon', 'Indian Myth', 'Egyptian Myth', 'Norse Myth' and 'Polynesian Island Myth'. He is editor of 'Myths and Legends' and foreword writer for 'Celtic Myths and Tales'. Other related work includes articles on the Philosophy of Time, 'Macbeth, A Gothic Chaos' and William Blake's use of mythology in his visionary literature.