ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jack Weatherford holds the DeWitt Wallace Chair of Anthropology at Macalester College in Minnesota and an honorary position at Chinggis Khaan University in Mongolia. In 2007 he received the Order of the Polar Star, the highest award for service to the Mongol nation.
Copyright © 2010 by Jack Weatherford
Illustrations © 2010 by N. Bat-Erdene
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weatherford, J. McIver.
The secret history of the Mongol queens/Jack Weatherford.
p. cm.
1. Genghis Khan, 1162–1227—Family. 2. Queens—Mongolia—History.
3. Daughters—Mongolia—History. 4. Women—Mongolia—History.
5. Inheritance and succession—Mongolia—History. 6. Mongols—History.
7. Mongols—Biography. 8. Mongolia—Kings and rulers—Biography.
9. Mongolia—History. 10. Mongolia—Biography. I. Title.
DS22.W39 2010
950′.20922—dc22
2009020822
eISBN: 978-0-307-58936-1
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