Thursday, October 23, 2025

The historic Hua Qubing--and the Gansu Corridor--those are vast mileages--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huo_Qubing
But still only about 1/3 of places/routes conquered by Genghis Khan and his sons--and all they had were horses.

Conn Iggulden is an amazing writer--from Rome, to Genghiz Khan and his descendents, to War of the Roses, to Athens--

he started writing on a borrowed computer in the corridor of his father-in-law's office, and is descended from Irish wandering storytell...