Michael Kohn is a specialist on Mongolian culture and society. From 1998 to 2000 he served as the foreign editor for the Mongol Messenger, a weekly newspaper in Mongolia. He has since reported on Mongolia for a number of media outlets, including the BBC World Service, the Associated Press, the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times. He has also updated two editions of the Lonely Planet guide to Mongolia. His first book on the country, Dateline Mongolia, won Foreword Magazine's annual silver medal. Michael has worked for Lonely Planet since 2003 and has written more than 15 guidebooks, including Tibet, Israel, Armenia, China and Russia. He divides his time between San Francisco and Ulaanbaatar.
Description
Preface; Introduction; The Mysterious Monk; The Torch is Passed; Incidents of Youth; Ravjaa and Buddhism; Mongolia in the 19th century; A Desert Theater; The Great Poet; The Renaissance Man; Adventures and Companions; Travels and the Capital City; An Untimely End; Ravjaa Resurrected; Epilogue; Chronology; Glossary; Bibliography.