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Wild east [electronic resource] : travels in the new Mongolia / Jill Lawless.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawless, Jill.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mongolia--Description and travel.
- Mongolia.
- Mongolia--Social life and customs.
- Lawless, Jill--Travel--Mongolia.
- Lawless, Jill.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Travels in the new Mongolia
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : ECW Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jill Lawless arrived in Mongolia in the late 1990's to find a country waking from centuries of isolation, at once rediscovering its heritage as a nomadic and Buddhist society and simultaneously discovering the western world. The result is a land of fascinating, bewildering contrasts: a vast country where nomadic herders graze their sheep and yaks on the steppe, it also has one of the world's highest literacy levels and a burgeoning high-tech scene. While trendy teenagers rollerblade amid the Soviet apartment blocks of Ulaanbaatar and dance to the latest pop music in nightclubs...
- Contents:
- Stranger Than Paradise
- The Outsiders
- The Nomad and the Carpetbagger
- Back to the Future
- The School for Scandal
- The Four Seasons
- Young, Wild, and Free
- The Adventurers
- Ghost Towns
- The King of the Tabloids
- A Hearty Meal
- A Stiff Drink
- The Three Manly Sports
- The Space Invaders
- The Falcon and the Parrot
- The Abandoned Monastery
- How the Mongols Got Their Names Back
- The Border
- The End of the Line.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-53698-2
- 9786612536984
- 1-55490-489-7
- OCLC:
- 593330922
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