About Mongol Journal

Mongol Journal is a book I wrote about the 9 1/2 weeks I spent traveling through Mongolia, by horse and by hitchhiking, when I was eighteen years old.

This was the summer of 1993, a few months after the withdrawal of Communist control from the former Soviet Union. There was no Internet or Email as we know them now. I could not contact my parents or my family for two months, and they had no way to know whether I was alive or dead. I was alone but never alone, as I was accompanied by Mongolian friends and voluntary caretakers almost anywhere I went - and whether I liked it or not.

The book is comprised of slightly edited versions of the journal I kept and letters I wrote at that time. It is meant to communicate what everyday life in Mongolia was like, through the eyes of an American teenager.

For more information, or to purchase a copy of this book, (it is available in softcover or as an E-Book) please visit the link here.

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- Anna Williams