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The mongoliad. Book one [compact disc] / Neal Stephenson .. [et al.].

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Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, Inc., p2012.

Mongols -- Fiction.

Military history, Medieval -- Fiction.

Secret societies -- Fiction.

Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Fiction.

9781455879816 (set)

Brilliance Audio on compact disc.

11 sound discs (13 hr., 23 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Fusing historical events with a gripping fictional narrative, this first book in the Mongoliad trilogy reveals a secret history of Europe in the thirteenth century. As the Mongols swept across Asia and were poised to invade Europe in 1241, a small band of warriors, inheritors of an ancient secret tradition, conceived a desperate plan to stop the attack. They must kill the Khan of Khans; if they fail, all of Christendom will be destroyed. In the late nineteenth century, a mysterious group of English martial arts aficionados provided Sir Richard F. Burton, well-known expert on exotic languages and historical swordsmanship, a collection of long-lost manuscripts to translate. Burton's work was subsequently misplaced, only to be discovered by a team of amateur archaeologists in the ruins of a mansion in Treiste. From Burton's translations and the original source material, the epic tale of The Mongoliad was recreated.

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