Yeah, I have been (casually, because I'm kind of Genghised-out) looking for a Mongolian-authored history book and haven't found one yet. The closest I've come is Urgunge Onon's translation of Secret History of the Mongols, which is 1) expensive and 2) kind of linguistically weird in places, although a lot more readable than the more linguistically nitpicky ones (although still dry).
If you haven't read the SH yet and don't mind dry, Cleaves' translation is available free: http://altaica.ru/SECRET/cleaves_shI.pdf (Cleaves wasn't Mongolian and the translation is slightly outdated, but it's not bad). Pretty much every history of Genghis Khan depends heavily on the SH, and it's a really interesting read.
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Date: 2010-06-12 03:38 am (UTC)Yeah, I have been (casually, because I'm kind of Genghised-out) looking for a Mongolian-authored history book and haven't found one yet. The closest I've come is Urgunge Onon's translation of Secret History of the Mongols, which is 1) expensive and 2) kind of linguistically weird in places, although a lot more readable than the more linguistically nitpicky ones (although still dry).
If you haven't read the SH yet and don't mind dry, Cleaves' translation is available free: http://altaica.ru/SECRET/cleaves_shI.pdf (Cleaves wasn't Mongolian and the translation is slightly outdated, but it's not bad). Pretty much every history of Genghis Khan depends heavily on the SH, and it's a really interesting read.