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...journey, Stewart discovers that his wanderlust is distinctly un-Mongolian. They are nomads, but their wanderings are circumscribed by traditions that have hardly changed for a millennium. It is Stewart who stands out as a badachir, a lone itinerant always searching for more. The Mongolians, who gave up the world, have long since accepted their fate...
...fallen leaves, some atmosphere of twilight and horses"?Stewart plans to journey the 1,600-kilometer breadth of Mongolia by horse, not a good idea unless your last name is Khan. Those he encounters along the way are sure he's crazy, and Stewart, wrestling with ill-tempered Mongolian horses and occasionally incompetent guides, is tempted to agree. But he ultimately achieves his goal, carried along by the endless promise of the Mongolian landscape, the plains and hills that wipe away time and leave only the eternal present, "so wonderful to me that I could think of nothing else...
...Stewart's mining of Mongol history is fascinating. Who knew, for example, that Khan's son supposedly considered massacring China's entire population? But the author's real strength is in sketching the characters he encounters: a Dickens-loving Russian pimp, a shy newlywed, a Mongolian librarian of Chekhovian futility. Far from the taciturn nomads one might expect, Mongolians are voluble talkers ravenous for news: Stewart disappoints his attentive hosts only when he fails to relay sufficiently lurid gossip...
...homes until Israel was destroyed. The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, proclaimed the war’s purpose clearly on May 15, 1948. He declared; “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” When the Arab League lost the war that they started against Israel, the Palestinians who had expected to leave their homes for a short time were left homeless. Palestinians and Arab Jews both became refugees as a direct result of Arab aggression toward...
...late summer night in a railyard in Sukhbaatar—or Sukhe Batora as the Russians would have it—and it was a lonely, remote place. Nestled delicately somewhere between Siberia and the middle of nowhere, it is a desolate border town astride the Russian-Mongolian frontier and is the main point of crossing for all trains travelling on this particular branch of the sprawling Trans-Siberian network. It is the first, or last (or, in my case, both) place land travelers encounter when passing to or through Mongolia...