Owen Lattimore 

• Mongol Journeys

Charles Bawden

• The Modern History of Mongolia

Henning Haslund 

• Men and Gods In Mongolia
• Tents In Mongolia
• Mongolian Adventure

Ferdinand Ossendowski 

• Beasts, Men and God
• Ossendowski was a Polish writer, journalist, explorer and university professor. He found himself on the run from the Bolsheviks during the Revolution of the 1920s.

Don Croner

• Travels In Northern Mongolia

John Man

• Tracking The Gobi

Rob Liwall 

•  Walking Home From Mongolia 
• In 2012, Rob Lilwall and Leon McCarron walked over 5,000 km from the Gobi Desert down into China – following the Great Wall, trekking through the mountains of central China and finishing in Hong Kong.  

Rupert Isaacson

• The Horse Boy
• The true story of an expedition to northern Mongolia with the author taking his autistic son to meet the shamans – a remarkable journey.

Helen Thayer 

• Walking The Gobi
• At the age of 63, Helen Thayer fulfilled her lifelong dream of crossing Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Accompanied by her 74-year-old husband Bill and two camels, Tom and Jerry, Thayer walked 1600 miles. This is the ultimate vicarious adventure!

Lara Prior-Palmer

• Rough Magic
• Describes how Lara Prior Palmer became the youngest and first-female to win the epic Mongol Derby which is advertised as being the world’s longest and toughest horse race.
• https://www.eternal-landscapes.co.uk/mongolia-must-reads-rough-magic-by-lara-prior-palmer/

Louisa Waugh  

• Hearing Birds Fly
• Winner of the RLS Ondaatje prize
• This travelogue describes the year the author spent living in Tsengel, a Kazakh village in western Mongolia. The descriptions of the stark landscapes and local stories make this an honest account of time spent in Mongolia’s westernmost town.
• https://www.eternal-landscapes.co.uk/mongolia-must-reads-hearing-birds-fly-by-louisa-waugh/

Tim Cope

• On the Trails Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads (https://www.eternal-landscapes.co.uk/mongolia-must-reads-on-the-trail-of-genghis-khan-tim-cope/)
• Inspired by a desire to understand the nomadic way of life, Australian adventurer Tim Cope embarked on a remarkable journey: 6,000 miles on horseback across the Eurasian steppe from Mongolia, through Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine, to Hungary retracing the trail of Genghis Khan. 
• Having had his horses stolen one night close to the start of his trip, the following day Cope spotted a herd of horses moving swiftly with a single horseman in charge. On approach, Cope recognised his two horses among the pack. I particularly like the next bit: 

The horseman returned the horses without compensation, but insisted that Cope understand an important unwritten rule of the steppe: 

Stephen J Bodio 

• Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia 
•  A good option for if you’re considering visiting western Mongolia as it gives a good account of the life of the Kazakh eagle hunters as he spends time living among them and their birds, learning their traditions. 

Stanley Stewart

• In the Empire of Genghis Khan; A Journey Among Nomads

Nick Middleton

• The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia

Jasper Becker

• The Lost Country: Mongolia Revealed

Tim Severin

• In Search Of Genghis Khan

 Conn Iggulden

• The Conqueror Series 
• Five books in the historical fiction series of this, charting Mongolian life and the rise of the Mongol Empire under Genghis, Ogodei and Kubilai Khan.

Jiang Rong

• Wolf Totem
• Winner of the Asian Man Booker Prize
• Take yourself off to the wild steppes of Inner Mongolia during China’s Cultural Revolution in this part fiction/part biography.

James Aldridge

• The Marvellous Mongolian
• This is a children’s book but with delightful detail about Mongolian culture and the Przewalskii horses

Uuganaa Ramsay 

• Mongol
• Uuganaa is a Mongol living in Britain but she grew up as part of a nomadic herding family in Mongolia. This is a powerful memoir about when her new-born son Billy is diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome. It skillfully interweaves the extraordinary story of her own childhood in Mongolia with the sadly short life of Billy.  

• Norman Arlott – Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan

• John MacKinnon – A Field Guide to the Birds of China: Ornithology

• Mark Brazil – Birds of East Asia