Beasts, Men and Gods
1922
Beasts, Men and Gods
1922
In the winter of 1920, as the Bolshevik Revolution consumes Russia in fire, a Polish writer finds himself trapped in Krasnoyarsk with a price on his head. What follows is one of the most extraordinary escape narratives ever written: a 2,500-mile odyssey across Siberia, through the Gobi Desert, over the Himalayas, and into the heart of Central Asia, guided by a mysterious wanderer named Ivan who claims to have walked every road from Warsaw to Calcutta. Ossendowski dodges firing squads, outruns Cossack pursuers, falls in with White Russian warlords rotting in exile, and stumbles into Buddhist monasteries where monks whisper secrets of a 'King of the World' ruling from a hidden kingdom beyond Tibet. He watches empires die and new cruelties born. He starves, freezes, and hallucinates in the desert. And through it all, he poses a question that haunts every page: what remains of civilization when civilization itself collapses? First published in 1922, this book sold half a million copies in two years and was translated into thirty languages. It deserves rediscovery.
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“The great conqueror, Jenghiz Khan, the son of sad, stern, severe Mongolia,according to an old Mongolian legend "mounted to the top of Karasu Togol andwith his eyes of an eagle looked to the west and the east. In the west he sawwhole seas of human blood over which floated a bloody fog that blanketed all the horizon. There he could not discern his fate. But the gods ordered him to proceedto the west, leading with him all his warriors and Mongolian tribes. To the east hesaw wealthy towns, shining temples, crowds of happy people, gardens and fieldsof rich earth, all of which pleased the great Mongol. He said to his sons: 'There inthe west I shall be fire and sword, destroyer, avenging Fate; in the east I shallcome as the merciful, great builder, bringing happiness to the people and to theland.'".””
— Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
“The character and manners of lovely woman are the same everywhere: on bright Broadway, along the stately Thames, on the vivacious boulevards of gay Paris and in the silk-draped yurta of the Soyot Princess behind the larch covered Tannu Ola.””
— Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
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