John Man

Placed in line for the throne by his scheming mother, Kublai Khan the thirteenth century Mongolian prince became the warrior emperor of China and one of the most powerful men who ever lived. John Man draws on his own travels in Mongolia and China to bring this world to life.

As a child Jan Muller had done a little homesteading and when she met Harry Little in San Cristobal she was swept into marriage with him. Together with their daughter, Rebecca, they went to live in the the deep wilderness of northern Brazil where she, near blind and partially deaf, was the only one to survive the horror of a mysterious disease.