The Mongoliad: Book One
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 442
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: The Mongoliad Cycle
- EAN: 9781612182360
- Utgivelsesår: 2012
- Bidragsyter: Stephenson, Neal; Bear, Erik; Bear, Greg; Brassey, Joseph; Galland, Nicole; Moo, Cooper; Teppo, Mark
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.