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Retail Price $25.95
Pages: 394
Published: August 2012
ISBN: 978-1935850021
Dimensions: 8 x 5.25
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Mongolia (Other Places Travel Guide) | |
| Nathan Chamberlain, Leslie Chamberlain, Ashlee Christian, Andrew Cullen | ||
| " Proceeds from the authors are going back to Mongolia to support educational and community initiatives. What other travel guides can say that?" | ||
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- Overview
Mongolia is an adventurous travel destination. While some luxury accommodations exist in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar (UB) and some tourist hot spots have more Westerner-friendly accommodations, the most interesting experiences are outside the capital, where travelers must be creative, patient, and resourceful. The good news, though, is that your extra work pays off – and this book will serve you well in discovering the real Mongolia.
The authors of this book served as Peace Corps volunteers and, combined, lived for over ten years in Mongolia. They lived, worked, and played in local communities all across the sparsely-populated steppe and in the quickly developing urban centers. With the help of local travel experts, host families, fellow travelers, and a national network of expats and locals, they share their distinct perspectives so that you can experience the country as they did – from the inside.
- Wander off the beaten path to enjoy the unique hospitality of pastoral nomads on the steppe.
- Take in the rolling mountains, meandering streams, and nourishing lakes that gave rise to some of the world’s greatest civilizations.
- Explore Tibetan Buddhist monasteries – many of which have been hidden from outsiders for centuries.
- Watch the three manly sports, experience the four cardinal directions upside-down, and learn the five traditional herd animals of the Mongols.
- Ride to where roads become pastures and pastures become desserts in the “Land of the Blue Sky.”
About the Authors
Nathan Chamberlain
Nathan Chamberlain is the youngest of three brothers from Wilmington, Ohio, where he was bitten early on by the wanderlust bug. After graduating from Ohio University with a BA in International Studies, Nathan enjoyed non-profit management and fundraising in Philadelphia. Despite the comfortable life, the insidious wanderlust infection from his early days as a Scout and family road-tripper took him randomly to Mongolia with the Peace Corps where he was a business adviser for an international NGO implementing micro-lending and other programs designed to help low-income families.
Leslie Chamberlain
Leslie Ann Shaffer Chamberlain grew up in the small town of North East, Pennsylvania on Lake Erie. She’s always been able to tell where she is based on the location of the closest body of water. She also is fine with cold weather as long as it is accompanied by heaps of snow. In an odd twist of fate, she went with the Peace Corps to a freezing cold, landlocked country entirely too dry to have heaps of any precipitation and wasn’t close to bodies of water. Nevertheless, she hasn’t lost herself yet.
Ashlee Christian
A small girl with big dreams from Chicago's north side, Ashlee Christian knew from a young age that she wanted to be an astronaut. After realizing that the pursuit of such a career would require math skills beyond addition and subtraction, she humbly hung up her space helmet and moved to Bowling Green, Ohio to pursue a degree in photography. Ashlee had also always been fascinated by other places and cultures, a fascination that manifested itself in the most extreme way possible when she moved to a felt tent in central Mongolia. After spending two years in the land of blue sky, Ashlee is now back in America resting her itchy feet and plotting her next adventure. She may or may not revisit the idea of going to space.
Andrew Cullen
Andrew Cullen grew up traveling to skateboard parks and punk rock shows throughout New England. He received a degree in journalism from Boston University, from which he took a semester off to study in Mongolia. After graduation, Peace Corps sent him to Bangladesh. When Peace Corps pulled out of the hot, tiny, crowded, country due to security concerns, he suggested that Peace Corps send him back to frigid, sparsely populated, expansive Mongolia. They obliged, and he served as an English teacher in western Mongolia from 2006 to 2009. Following his service, he remained in Mongolia, working as a freelance photographer and journalist for a year, while also researching and writing this guide.
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