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Michael Kohn is one of the most talented new travel journalists on the international scene. Known for his Lonely Planet guidebook to Mongolia, Kohn's inside out exploration of this fascinating country is must reading for anyone who wants to understand the future of the Asian continent. Informative, funny, heart breaking and endlessly fascinating, this book is a page turner that invites comparison to the best of Pico Iyer and Bill Bryson.
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About the Author
Michael Kohn is the author of Lonely Planet guidebooks to Mongolia, China and Central Asia. He is currently working on a Lonely Planet guide to Mongolia.
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Product details
Paperback: 345 pages
Publisher: Rdr Books; First Edition edition (October 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1571431551
ISBN-13: 978-1571431554
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.2 x 8.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
13 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#2,610,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I read this book while traveling in Mongolia, and learned a lot about the country's history and evolution - at a bottom up, personal level. The author's love for the country and its people that shines through in his sensitive storytelling. (I did occasionally wish he had made better use of the perfect tense.)This is one of those rare travel books that improves as it goes, and finishes strong, even through the acknowledgements page. It is sure to pique your interest in Mongolia as a fascinating and beautiful travel destination - which indeed it is.
This is a good book overall and provides some good insights into Mongolia. It's essentially a collection of essays from his time in Mongolia. It's a bit light on the history and lacks a deep, nuanced understanding of the country/culture. He's not an expert on Mongolia and it shows, but then he isn't trying to be. He has produced an interesting book about his experiences as a journalist in Mongolia. Well worth reading, but if you want a full picture of Mongolia you'll need to expand your reading list.
I began reading thinking the book was about one american's perspective of what he thought about the nomadic country, but instead I was completely taken by the fascinating stories of what was happening in the country during a difficult transition. I'm so glad that I decided to buy and read this historical gem. I loved it, there was a never a dull boring part in the book. I recommend this book for anyone who is planning to live in Mongolia, and for all mongolians who weren't present in the country during late 1990s and early 2000s.
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I found this book on Google Books while researching for Mongolia's hyperinflation in the 90s. Its beginning was so intriguing that I found out that the author still lived in Ulaanbaatar, contacted him and asked to borrow a copy for my research (hey, Mongolia is big but UB is small).Much to my dismay, the book didn't have much about hyperinflation but I couldn't stop reading it. The stories he wrote happened when I was a little kid barely understanding the news in the 90s, and here was this foreigner working at the only State-run English newspaper, absorbing all the major, monumental events of the Lost Generation*, like the Zorig's assassination, Cold-war era's washed-out bands coming here and the Cameroonians who "introduced" AIDS to Mongolia etc. Reading about these and recalling childhood memories made me really nostalgic.* -- We call the 90s the Lost Generation (Sapirtsan uye :P), because after Mongolia dropped communist regime, the transformation to democracy was hard on the social psyche and fabric.As a former-expat Mongolian, I would highly recommend this book to other English-fluent Mongolians, as I believe this gives us an un-redacted, outsider's perspective on the late 90's history, from which we can get our general sense of continuity. Plus, Mongolia doesn't always get covered by English-speaking authors, at least not the modern Mongolia.But it's not just the facts that he should be applauded for, he had extensively listed out statements, ideologies that resonate with Mongolians (or at least me). He even has the political backdrop right! I remember reading the book and thinking to myself "That's so true!" and "How was he able to make this observation?!" I don't know how he did it, I suspect he had a Mongolian to help out, but then again he seems to have learned Mongolian rather fluently and this has given him a lot of freedom to interview people from all walks of life and travel to most parts of Mongolia.Speaking of traveling, I was also pleasantly surprised by the extensive travelogues he wrote about the West and the Eastern borders. As one of the million Mongolians who dwell in UB and not travel around the provinces, Kohn's travels seemed like a lost tradition; it might even inspire more domestic tourism from the urban and repatriate Mongolians who alienated the countryside.The author was not just recording the events as they were unfolding, he was there to meet and interview the people! It should be noted that the people he interviewed and mentioned in his book are very big names in the history of Mongolia, dead or alive. Therefore, if translated into Mongolia, this could be really controversial. For instance, I didn't believe that former MP and poet, Mr. O.Dashbalbar had fascist ideologies. He's now more famous of his sympathetic, "Let's love one another while we're all alive" poem. I asked my father, and he even filled in more stories on this.Finally, the only disappointment I had with this book is that it didn't get its marketing done right. There isn't any e-book version. Because of the mindsets and values he figured out correctly about Mongolians and all the pretty and not-so-pretty angles he wrote from, I think this book should be recommended to any first-time expats visiting Mongolia, not Owen Lattimore's book from the 1960s, which some Mongolians do. And I really, really wish that the author would write a sequel like Peter Hessler did on China, as Mongolia's changing a lot these days. (Btw, I'd pick Dateline Mongolia over Rivertown any given Sunday; that book was so long and full of trivial reflections)
I bought this book in the State Department store while visiting Mongolia in late 2010. It was fun to read about the authors adventures as he went to more places than I did. I felt the book captured the spirit of the somewhat backwards lifestyle and daily struggles suffered by people living in this harsh place.Mongolia is very different than anywhere I have traveled. A hard place with extreme weather, little social services and support, wide open spaces and extremely interesting people.The author captured a lot of the things I found interesting in my 10 day visit which began with the 30 hour train ride from Beijing.
I was sent this book to read and started it in earnest, having not read much travel literature before. I enjoyed it from start to finish. Michael Kohn adopts a very conversational style to tell his story and each episode is told well. He illustrates all the people he met with such detail that by the end you feel you know them and I was heartened to read that he married one of his friends whom he met out there.Michael tells the story of Mongolia from the cities to the steppes and includes some interesting insights into its political history including its sometimes painful transition from Soviet Communism to a free-market economy. In this reviewer's opinion it made that transition quite well with little of the corruption of the ex-Soviet states to the West.In short this book brought a whole culture and country to my attention which I had never thought existed; believing as I did that Mongolia was much like an outpost of China. For seasoned travellers and armchair enthusiasts alike, this book will interest you.
I got this book as a gift and upon starting it, I couldn't put it down. It details in a very personal way the experiences of the writer while in Mongolia. His ability to describe places and events, which by themselves is facinating, but also allows the reader to share the experience. BRAVO!!
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