Garden City, NY: International Collectors Library, n.d. (ca 1970, c 1927.). Hardcover - Biography of perhaps the greatest leader of all times, a man who led his desert tribe of nomads from out of nowhere and conquered half the known world, the scourge of boht Christians and Moslems (a story told in the excellent Russian film "Mongols") Illustrated. Bibliography, index. 268 pp.

New York: Putnam. (1988.) dj. Hardcover - Travelling through China as the Chinese do, from Peking to Urumchi near the Siberian border. An entertaining and enlightening book by one of our best and most adventurous travel writers. 480 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-399-133097.