Being twelfth-century Mongols, they told him it was falconry ... a greater and more complicated figure by some margin. Like Genghis, the Tartar conqueror was apt to stress the divine nature of his ...
In the Sibillini Mountains of Italy, I have been rereading Buzzati’s Il deserto dei Tartari (‘The Desert of the Tartars’, translated into English as The Tartar Steppe). Written in 1938, this prescient ...