By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China’s Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror to emerge from Inner Asia. In this...(展开全部)

By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by Genghis Khan was in crisis. The Mongol Ilkhanate had ended in Iran and Iraq, China’s Mongol rulers were threatened by the native Ming, and the Golden Horde and the Central Asian Mongols were prey to internal discord. Into this void moved the warlord Tamerlane, the last major conqueror to emerge from Inner Asia. In this...(展开全部)

罗伯特•马歇尔 BBC纪录片资深制片人。制作过：《时代观察》系列，包括：《维希法国和犹太人》、《所有的臣民》、《黑暗中的光》、《轰炸中的夏日》。出版过：《所有的臣民》，《制造阴影者》和《利沃夫的下水道里》。

Shows how and why an ancient city destroyed and then rebuilt by Mongols became again the ‘Pearl’ of the Iranian east Establishes a sequence and chronology for the Mongol attacks in eastern Iran Includes a political-military history of the Kart dynasty, from their founding in 649/1251 by Möngke Qaʾan, to their surrender to Tamerlane in 783/1381 Explores the renewal of agricultur...(展开全部)

Shows how and why an ancient city destroyed and then rebuilt by Mongols became again the ‘Pearl’ of the Iranian east Establishes a sequence and chronology for the Mongol attacks in eastern Iran Includes a political-military history of the Kart dynasty, from their founding in 649/1251 by Möngke Qaʾan, to their surrender to Tamerlane in 783/1381 Explores the renewal of agricultur...(展开全部)

出生於愛爾蘭，成長於加拿大，足跡遍及亞洲與非洲偏遠地區。定期為《週日時報》和《每日電訊報》撰文，三度獲頒年度旅行作家獎。作品包括記載追溯尼羅河源頭之旅的《尼羅河魔鬼》（Old Serpent Nile），及經由絲路橫越中國的旅程故事《天堂的邊境》（Frontiers of Heaven）。史都華是極少數兩度榮獲湯瑪士．庫克∕每日電訊報旅行文學獎的作家，得獎作品為《天堂的邊境》和《馬背上的游牧國度》。史都華為英國皇家文學協會會員，現居倫敦。