Elegy of Great Sweating: Searching for the Tomb of Genghis Khan

Author: Liang Yue
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: "The Lament of the Great Khan" is full of suspense and highly engaging, serving as an academic exploration book with a rich prose style. Particularly, the chapter introductions interspersed with Persian-style verses are both ancient and elegant, filled with a melancholic tone, evoking endless reflections on the ultimate fate of this "Emperor of All Humanity," "The Conqueror of Generations," and "The Wolf of the Grasslands." In Asia and Eastern Europe, a legend about Genghis Khan still circulates: a blue-gray wolf born with the Mandate of Heaven, its howls shaking the world. Yet, where did the wolf finally vanish? This book attempts to unravel this mystery. The author traveled extensively across Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang, peeling away layers of historical records to get closer to the truth. For the first time, this book reveals the search and behind-the-scenes of the Japanese Kashiwaba expedition team and the American Krawetz expedition team, as well as the discoveries made by Chinese researchers in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and the Altai Mountains in Xinjiang, thus unveiling the hidden veil of this earth-shattering secret.