Dimensions
141 x 216 x 23mm
The author of this book discovered the existence of the Tartar Khan's English-born personal envoy, interpreter and spy in a thirteenth-century monastic chronicle. Here he pieces together the extraordinary career of the mysterious envoy.
Genghis Khan built an empire stretching from the China Sea to Eastern Europe on the bones of massacred millions. His grandson Batu carried the Mongol domination to the walls of bickering Christendom and beyond. The architect of the diplomatic drive preceding the Tartar holocaust was a mysterious Englishman whose actions and brand of diplomacy have left their stamp on the face of Europe. Peopled with kings and warriors, missionary friars and mass murderers this is the story of that remarkable individual.
