Beasts, Men and Gods Contributor(s): Ossendowski, Ferdinand (Author), 1st World Library (Editor), 1stworld Library (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1421800268 ISBN-13: 9781421800264 Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2005 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Travel | Asia - General - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.21 lbs) 328 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - When one of the leading publicists in America, Dr. Albert Shaw of the Review of Reviews, after reading the manuscript of Part I of this volume, characterized the author as "The Robinson Crusoe of the Twentieth Century," he touched the feature of the narrative which is at once most attractive and most dangerous; for the succession of trying and thrilling experiences recorded seems in places too highly colored to be real or, sometimes, even possible in this day and generation. I desire, therefore, to assure the reader at the outset that Dr. Ossendowski is a man of long and diverse experience as a scientist and writer with a training for careful observation which should put the stamp of accuracy and reliability on his chronicle. Only the extraordinary events of these extraordinary times could have thrown one with so many talents back into the surroundings of the "Cave Man" and thus given to us this unusual account of personal adventure, of great human mysteries and of the political and religious motives which are energizing the "Heart of Asia." |