Mongolian‐English Dictionary

Charles Roskelly Bawden FBA, Emeritus Professor of Mongolian in the University of London, author of The Modern History of Mongolia and Shamans, Lamas and Evangelicals: The English Missionaries in Siberia, is that rara avis: a distinguished scholar well aware of the need to be practical, useful to a wide spectrum of readers and relevant to current preoccupations and desiderata.

Compiled over some 30 years with the help of six named Mongolian scholars and of the State University of Mongolia, this extensive work eschews the use of earlier dictionaries (so often productive of error and misdirection) as a source for...