ISBN:
9781773101330
Language:
English
Pages:
270 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.894/3450517
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Beizjagd
;
Adler
;
Kasachen
;
Nomade
;
Mongolei
;
Mongolei
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Smutylo, Allen / 1946- / Travel / Mongolia
;
Kazakhs / Mongolia / Social life and customs
;
Falconers / Mongolia
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Hunting / Mongolia
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Mongolia / Social life and customs / 21st century
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Smutylo, Allen / 1946-
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Falconers
;
Hunting
;
Kazakhs / Social life and customs
;
Manners and customs
;
Travel
;
Mongolia
;
2000-2099
;
Mongolei
;
Geschichte
;
Mongolei West
;
Kasachen
;
Nomade
;
Beizjagd
;
Adler
Abstract:
"In the shadows of the Altai Mountains live the Kazakh nomads of western Mongolia. These hard-living nomads survive on windswept steppes, grazing their herds and keeping an ancient practice alive: hunting not with traps or guns, but on horseback with golden eagles. The Mongolian Chronicles recounts a story of this untamed world, seen through the eyes of artist, writer, and traveller Allen Smutylo. Smutylo lived with seven eagle hunters and their families for several weeks over two years, affording him rare insight into a disappearing culture. His extraordinary narrative is set within the context of Mongolia's turbulent past -- the long shadow cast by the empire of Genghis Khan, the deprivations of early twentieth century warlords-cum-mystics -- and its protean present, where ancient customs and shamanistic beliefs exist among an increasingly urbanized people. Smutylo's vivid prose and powerful artwork portray a Mongolia of contradictions and extremes. Readers will encounter a country with a vast wilderness that nonetheless has one of the most polluted capitals on earth; a modern economy in which tent-dwelling nomads still rely on their animals for survival; a people unchanged for millennia, yet recognizing that their way of life may disappear with their generation."--
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