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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: Krohne, Rita Marie (birth)
Geslacht: female
Woonplaatsen: Wisconsin, USA
Relaties: Ritchie, Jack (husband)
Korte biografie: [from Bethlehem Books website]
Rita Ritchie, born, raised and educated in the state of Wisconsin, began writing in the first grade. By the time she was in high school, she was doing radio scripts for a local children's program and producing feature articles for a weekly newspaper. Always interested in people and places, Mrs. Ritchie later spent time vacationing in Mexico and bicycling in Europe. Her curiosity about other places and times led her to study anthropology, and eventually to investigate the “barbarians” repeatedly mentioned in European history. She found the details of Genghis Khan's empire so exciting that she felt she had to write about it. The result was her first book The Year of the Horse in 1957, and later, The Golden Hawks of Genghis Khan and Secret Beyond the Mountains. Over the years, Rita Richie added to these books with others that captured key historical moments in a variety of times and settings, some of which offered further excursions into the fascinating world of the falcon.

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The year of the horse door Rita Ritchie

This book, written in 1957 & reissued in 1961 is the story of Botokai, a boy who was the son of a Mongol horde officer who genghis Khan believed betrayed him. Before his death, Chatig tells Botokai that he was innocent, & made him promise to prove it when he became a young man. With his best friend Dachu, BotoKai sets out to do just that. In the end, a year later, through a series of plot twists & turns, he does just that, & his father's title, lands, etc. are returned to him

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Lisa.Johnson.James | 1 andere bespreking | Apr 10, 2014 |

Secret Beyond the Mountains door Rita Ritchie

The Mongols are staging their annual hunt, a source of both food and military training. A mysterious animal (a panda) attacks Chinghis Khan's generals. Is it a real animal or a spirit? Are the attacks an attempt at assassination, or coincidence? Two young Mongol soldiers are sent on a long journey to Tibet to learn what they can about the animal.

I've read this well-written and fascinating young adult novel as both a child and an adult, and I recommend it either to lovers of historical novels, particularly those interested in Central Asia.

It is fairly unusual to find a decent historical novel about the Mongols, especially from their point of view. They tend to be caricatured as the super-barbarians. Yes, the empire was built on a lot of bloodshed, but so are most empires, like Alexander the Great's, and yet so many are celebrated as "glorious". Rita Ritchie has written two other books on Mongols of this period: The Golden Hawks of Genghis Khan and The Secret Beyond the Mountain. I recommend them all.… (meer)

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PuddinTame | Oct 18, 2009 |

The year of the horse door Rita Ritchie

The son and widow of a disgraced Mongol general barely survive as despised beggers on the outskirts of Genghis Khan's imperial encampment. The only remotely friendly figure is the son of another general who feels that the boy should not be punished for the sins of his father. Determined to win glory for himself and clear his father's name, the son asks to serve in the army, but is refused even this.

Given the opportunity to gain a horse if he can nurse a frail colt to health, he sees another alternative. When the horse recovers, he and his friend embark on a journey to search for information to clear his father's name, creating a murderous enemy in the process.

I've read this well-written and fascinating young adult novel as both a child and an adult, and I recommend it either to lovers of historical novels, particularly those interested in Central Asia.

It is fairly unusual to find a decent historical novel about the Mongols, especially from their point of view. They tend to be caricatured as the super-barbarians. Yes, the empire was built on a lot of bloodshed, but so are most empires, like Alexander the Great's, and yet so many are celebrated as "glorious". Rita Ritchie has written two other books on Mongols of this period: The Golden Hawks of Genghis Khan and The Secret Beyond the Mountain. I recommend them all.… (meer)

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PuddinTame | 1 andere bespreking | Oct 18, 2009 |

The enemy at the gate door Rita Ritchie

Read it, and re-read it, and re- re-read it as a teenager. About an apprentice gunsmith in the beginning of the "wheellock era" in Vienna during ~1519 during the siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Turks, smugglers' tunnels under the walls, the fall of his native Hungary, etc. Very good read--too bad its out of print.

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Azraelle | May 9, 2008 |

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