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The Secret History of the Mongols
The only account of Chinggis Khan written by his own people. The Secret History of the Mongols begins with a blue-grey wolf and a fallow doe, and follows the boy Temujin through fatherlessness, poverty, capture and escape to the feuds, oaths and battles that made him ruler of all the felt-tent peoples. It is a book of hard steppe life and blood brotherhood, of betrayal by friends and loyalty from unexpected men, of horses, hunts and alliances sealed by marriage, told in a voice that mixes chronicle, epic and song. The text survived only in a Ming-dynasty Chinese transcription, and this complete new English translation is made from that Chinese version, with its postface, carrying the story through the conquests and into the reign of Ogedei.
