The book also includes the author's own maps of the Mongolian cultural domain and sketches of the grassland culture, making the prosperous world of the 13th-century Mongolian Empire all the more accessible to the reader.
書中尚穿插著多幅席慕蓉親手繪製的蒙古文化疆域圖、草原文化略圖等，讓讀者更容易進入西元一千二百年前的蒙古帝國盛世。