Temujin: The Man the World Called Genghis Khan

Before he became Genghis Khan, Temujin was a hunted boy whose family had been abandoned on the steppe. Drawing on the major Mongol, Persian, and Chinese sources while keeping their silences and contradictions in view, this narrative history follows the choices that carried him from hunger and captivity to supreme rule. It shows how Hoelun and Borte held a vulnerable household together; how friends...