Lords of the Bow

Összefoglaló

I am the land and the bones ofthe hills I am the winter.

Temujin of he Wolves has become Genghis Khan, a man who must unite the most fractious, warlike tribes on earth. He intends to forge a new nation out ofthe wild plains and mountains ofMongolia. It will be a bloody birth that brings a continent to its knees. For thousands ofyears, his people have been kept apart by the fortress empire ofthe Chin, a land ofvast wealth and teeming armies. His warriors have only the bow, the horse and an iron discipline born from a land ofice, hunger and death. Stone walls loom over the Mongol riders and Genghis must break the ancient enemy, or see his people scattered and his dreams crushed.

As well as that ancestral foe, Genghis must reconcile the restless factions among his own generals, mediate between his ambitious brothers and cope with his own reactions to his growing sons. The young warrior has become a victorious military commander: he must now raise his people to greatness.

LordsoftheBow is epic in scope, convincing aná fascinating in thenarration ofan extraordinary story. Above all, Genghis Khan continues to dominate the scene as he matures from the young boy of Wolfofthe Plains to a conqueror of nations.

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