Tim Cope
Auteur van On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
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Tim Cope is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an award-winning adventurer, author, filmmaker, and motivational speaker with a special interest in Central Asia and states of the former Soviet Union. He has studied as a wilderness guide in the Finnish and Russian Arctic, ridden a bicycle toon meer across Russia to China, and rowed about 4,500 Km through Siberia to the Arctic Ocean. He lives in Victoria, Australia, and travels annually to Mongolia as a trekking guide. toon minder
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Off the Rails: 10,000 km in fourteen months - Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, and China (2003) — Auteur — 51 exemplaren
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- Cope, Tim
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- Warragul, Victoria, Australia
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- Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
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- Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
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Cope’s interaction with the nature of the steppe was by far the best part of the book. His inclusion of the history of the land and the peoples was also well done, as he scattered it in along the way. Despite his fascination with Genghis Khan and other nomadic warriors, he did not fail to mention the millions of people slaughtered by them. I guess their expert horsemanship and the civilization they brought with them balanced things out.
Many families who welcomed this strange traveler into their homes must have been left out of the story. Some were not, but the emphasis was given to the individuals who were consumed by vodka and alcoholism. It paints a depressing picture.
It was not until the end of the journey and of the book that Cope includes an epilogue, where he briefly tells what happened to the animals and people he met. I suspect that my poor impression of him comes more from a defect in his writing than in his character.… (meer)