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Stanley Stewart revisits the Mongolian steppes of his past and immerses himself again in a world of wild horses, chain-smoking shamans, and the haunting songs of nomads.
THE Mongolian People's Republic, better known as Outer Mongolia, a purportedly independent country of over 600,000 square miles and less than a million people, is not administratively a part of either the Soviet Union or Communist China, and its location between these two countries lends it special political importance.