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...cynical blot on western competency that the fabrications of a wild romancer like Ossendowski pass as interpretations of the Orient, and it is a fault in occidental optimism that it seems to ignore the ancient East. In the East civilization arose earliest, has lasted with least change, and bids fair to endure with greatest permanency. The East is both civilized and barbarous, and out of its barbarity new hordes may rush upon the flimsy fabric of occidentalism. In pushing strident commercial claims, the possibility of reaction must be remembered; and greed for a few dollars today must not be allowed...
...MYSTERY IN ASIA?Ferdinand Ossendowski ? Dutton ($3.00). The Polish author-scientist-sportsman who has already interested the American people in his Beasts, Men, and Gods here narrates some of his earlier adventures on the same continent. Employed by the Tsar's government in investigating salt lakes, coal mines, gold deposits, Dr. Ossendowski was obliged to make long trips into the Kalunda and Bateni steppes, into the Altai Mountains, to the convict island of Sakhalin, into the extraordinary Ussurian country where the tropical tiger roams in the same forest as the reindeer and the northern goose and the Indian flamingo...
When Marco Polo returned from the East there had been no World War. His story was not muffled by the thunder of national cataclysms. He set the West by the ears, and opened new paths of activity and progress to the existing civilization. Dr. Ferdinand Ossendowski, author of "Beasts, Men and Gods", is another Polo if ever there was one; but unfortunately in the whirling events of today his startling epic is too apt to be passed over, or classified as just "another of those war books...
...from being that. In all the "war books" I have read, ranging from Ian Hay through Donald Hankey to Ambassador Page, I have come across none that possessed the inherent power and strength and fascination of this strange tale. Dr. Ossendowski, a Polish professor formerly holding an important official scientific position in Russia, was caught by the Revolution: fied in winter Eastward through Siberia; struck South across Inner and Outer Mongolia and into Thibet; retraced his steps, skirted--the Desert of Gobi, and finally reached Urga, the city of the Living Buddha. From Urga, which was also serving...
...troubles, his own skirmishes with the "Reds"--he was twice wounded--his own visits to "yurtas", where the blood of the last murdered victim had not yet sunk into the ground, his own wanderings by horse, cart, camel, and on foot, Dr. Ossendowski has not forgotten to look about him and learn. The last section of the book, in which he tells of the fabled "King of the World", and sets forth Buddhistic prophecies and miracles, is undoubtedly a more than unique thing. Strangest of all--the passage that causes the Christian reader to gasp as he suddenly and without...
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