Description
| Product ID: | 9781612182360 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | The Mongoliad Cycle |
| Title: | The Mongoliad: Book One |
| Authors: | Author: Cooper Moo, Nicole Galland, Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo, Joseph Brassey, Greg Bear, Erik Bear |
| Page Count: | 442 |
| Subjects: | Historical adventure fiction, Historical adventure |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In it, a small band of warriors and mystics raise their swords to save Europe from a bloodthirsty Mongol invasion. Inspired by their leader (an elder of an order of warrior monks), they embark on a perilous journey and uncover the history of hidden knowledge and conflict among secret societies that had been shaping world events for millennia. Fusing historical events with a gripping fictional narrative, this first book in the Mongoliad trilogy reveals a secret history of Europe in the thirteenth century. As the Mongols swept across Asia and were poised to invade Europe in 1241, a small band of warriors, inheritors of an ancient secret tradition, conceived a desperate plan to stop the attack. They must kill the Khan of Khans; if they fail, all of Christendom will be destroyed. In the late nineteenth century a mysterious group of English martial arts aficionados provided Sir Richard F. Burton, well-known expert on exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, a collection of long-lost manuscripts to translate—the lost chronicles of this desperate fight to save Europe. Burton’s translations were lost, until a team of amateur archaeologists discovered them in the ruins of a mansion in Trieste. From the translations and from the original source material, the epic tale of The Mongoliad was recreated. |
| Imprint Name: | 47North |
| Publisher Name: | Amazon Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-04-24 |
