What a great adventure and what courage and stamina you'd need to enterprise such a journey in the harsh and beautiful landscape of Mongolia. Tim Severn and his friend Paul have it all. They have the physical strength to endure riding an extremely long distance, crossing Mongolia from one end to the other (the Silk Road), they also have the stomach to eat 99% of the time only boiled mutton and mare's milk. Most importantly they have the mental strength to put up with one of the most incompetent and arrogant expedition organizer that Mongolia ever had, Ariunbold.                 "In search of Genghis Han" is not only a travel book, but it is also a great adventure which happened in the '90, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. Mongolia at that time was still captive in the mentality and soviet social instruments like all the other countries that were part of the Russian Soviet block. People with shallow intelligence, but with strong political relat...