Volume 56, Number 12 · July 16, 2009
A Mad, Bad, and Brutal Baron
By Anne Applebaum
The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
by James Palmer
Basic Books, 274 pp., $26.95
Like a contemporary reincarnation of Adela Quest, the heroine of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, James Palmer was both attracted and repelled by his first encounter with the grotesque, grimacing, wooden gods of Inner Mongolia:
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