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Beasts, Men and Gods: Russia, Mongolia, Tibet and the Living Buddha

Beasts, Men and Gods: Russia, Mongolia, Tibet and the Living Buddha

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General AsiaGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1633916022
ISBN13: 9781633916029
Publisher: Westphalia Pr
Published: Sep 27 2018
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
If the tales by Ferdinand Ossendowski are true, then he led an extraordinary life. Ossendowski begins his account in a solitary shack in Siberia. Having heard that the police are coming for him, he sneaks off in the bitter cold, armed with an axe, guns, and many shells. Not surprisingly, after reading the initial portion of Ossendowksi's draft, the publisher sought out a confirmed account. He was assigned a translator and critical editor to get him to offer full details. In addition to his life as an adventurer, Ossendowski considered himself a scientist as he traveled extensively throughout Asia. Given that he was was billed as a twentieth century Robinson Crusoe possibly the reader will be well advised that the book should be taken with a grain of salt. The account abounds with both wild adventure and ethnocentrism.

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