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Kublai Khan

Paperback • 2007 • English • 1. edition

Kublai Khan: from Xanadu to superpower

By John Man

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In Xanadu did Kublai Khan, a stately pleasure dome decree. Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even more fantastic than the poem would have us believe. He inherited the second largest land empire in history from his grandfather, Genghis Khan. He promptly set about extending this into the biggest empire the world has ever seen, extending his rule from China to Iraq, from Siberia to Afghanistan. ...Show more

Biography: historical, political and military
Asian history

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ISBN

9780553817188

Publisher

Bantam

Published year

2007

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Kublai Khan

Format

Paperback

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