The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan (2011)
“It is the nineteenth-largest country in the world — five times larger than Germany, twice as large as Turkey — and yet it is also the largest, most sparsely populated country in the world. Australia, five times larger in square miles has a population of twenty-two million people; Mongolia has just three million people living in a country the size of Iran, which, by comparison, has a population of seventy-five million people.
To the south of the country is the Gobi desert and to the north are hi...gh mountains, but most of the country is just grassland plains called steppes.
Philippa thought it the most beautiful country she had ever seen. She imagined the open prairies of America would have been like this before the wagon trains brought the people who built the cities. It was untouched, unspoiled, like the beginning of the world before cars and airplanes, with vast rainbows and endless plains of grass that looked more like the open sea. If Australia looked like Mars, then Mongolia, no less alien in her eyes, looked like something much more lush and fertile, which made it all the more surprising that no one was there.MoreLess
To the south of the country is the Gobi desert and to the north are hi...gh mountains, but most of the country is just grassland plains called steppes.
Philippa thought it the most beautiful country she had ever seen. She imagined the open prairies of America would have been like this before the wagon trains brought the people who built the cities. It was untouched, unspoiled, like the beginning of the world before cars and airplanes, with vast rainbows and endless plains of grass that looked more like the open sea. If Australia looked like Mars, then Mongolia, no less alien in her eyes, looked like something much more lush and fertile, which made it all the more surprising that no one was there.MoreLess
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