The secret history of the Mongols

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS
Version of Laureano G. Bellerín
Kapok tree. 2000

It is a very agreeable pleasure for which it is in charge to take this section, of having the opportunity to be able to offer frequent good news to the readership. It is possible that there is supported the quality and quantity of editions related to the Chinese world, and in a pair of centuries let's be able to be on a par with other European countries.

The direct translation of "The secret history of the Mongols" is a hanging subject that now is approved. In the 70s ú 80 was circulating a translation from French or from German, which had to of selling with certain success, since it has been years since it disappeared of the bookstores, let's hope that the present edition should have the same destination.

He does not lack motives, since the translator not only is a specialist in the Chinese language, but also it is, or has turned into the translation process, in a specialist in the Mongolian world. In such a way that the reader not only reads and enjoys this wonderful work, but also, it understands this work.

The history and culture of the Mongols supports a big attraction for big part of the western sedentary society, partly for his nomads' condition, partly for his aureole of distant and legendary people, and partly for the sensation of historical acceleration that his adventures provoke. This acceleration feels more than on never having read this book, since the "Secret History of the Mongols" is fundamentally the history of the imperial entronamiento of the Mongols of Kublai Khan in which it would be the dynasty Chinese Yuan.

The facts that happen since a small tribe of the deserts of Central Asia, turns into the biggest empire that has dominated the ground, they are full of action, of magic, of enclosed mystery. And his reading becomes so tumultuous as the years that lead Gengis Kahn, from his original poverty to proprietor of the world turning into proprietor.

If it is history is already interesting of for itself. In this version of Bellerín the interest multiplies, since along more than than 4000 notes that complement his translation the history of the Mongols is outlined, from long before it begins the history, his culture and traditions, his religion, and all the aspects of his society that become necessary to know this culture.

With it, this version of wide Bellerín his offer, and on having read it, one remains with the sensation that two is taking for one. The History Secretes of the Mongols in strict sense, and the History and Culture of the Mongols, for Laureano G. Bellerín.

Pedro Ceinos

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