Books by Tim Cope

Tells of two twenty-year-old boys who travel, on bicycles, from Russia across Siberia, the Gobi Desert, Mongolia to Beijing, in China.

The extraordinary adventure of one man's journey following in the footsteps of Genghis Khan's conquering armies

Adventurer Tim Cope had a childhood dream: to travel the 10,000 kilometres from Mongolia to Hungary on horseback - a journey undertaken by the legendary leader of the Mongols, Genghis Khan. Tim made this epic journey - across the windswept wilderness and wolf-infested plateaux of... Mongolia and Kazakhstan - with his dog Tigon. This three-and-a-half-year odyssey took Tim to both physical and emotional extremes. He immersed himself in the traditions and histories of the people of the steppe, who welcomed him and Tigon into their homes, marvelling at their ingenuity and resilience, and the nomadic lifestyle they have followed since the Mongols first travelled there in the thirteenth century. He endured unbelievable loneliness, hardship, isolation and climatic harshness. His journey is completely compelling and unique, and resonates with the pioneering spirit of the explorers of old. Above all, this is the story of an extraordinary friendship between Tim and Tigon.
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Guided by a Kazakh aphorism To understand the wolf, you must put the skin of a wolf on and look through its eyes adventurer Tim Cope undertook a journey not successfully completed since the days of Genghis Khan: he traveled by horseback across the entire length of the Eurasian st...eppe, from the ancient capital of Mongolia to the Danube River in Hungary.It was an incredible six-thousand-mile, three-year-long trip across formidable landscape and into the heart of the nomadic way of life that dominated this region for thousands of years, transforming Western Europe through its conquering armies. Cope s trek takes him through wolf-infested plateaus, over glaciers and the subzero starving steppe, the scorching Kazakh desert, and the deep forests and treacherous mountains of the Carpathians.Alone except for a trusty dog (and a succession of thirteen horses, many stolen from him along the way), he encounters incredible hospitality from those who welcome him along the way, a tradition that is the linchpin of human survival on the steppe. Immersed in the land and its people, Cope is witness to the rich past and often painful complexities of the present still recovering from Soviet rule. On the Trail of Genghis Khan is a celebration and an elegy for the nomadic way of life its freedom, its closeness to the land, its animals, and moods and a narrative full of romance, intelligence, and drama.
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