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Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, by Evariste Regis Huc He's an early 1800s French Catholic monk and is possibly the greatest travel writer of all time. N
by RangerScience 7y ago
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, by Evariste Regis Huc
He's an early 1800s French Catholic monk and is possibly the greatest travel writer of all time. Not only is the trip amazing, but the way he writes about it? Incredible.
In the sequel, the Chinese empire summons him to stand trial for being a Christian, since it was mostly illegal to be so in the empire at the time. It, too, is amazing.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32747/32747-h/32747-h.htm https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32747/32747-h/32747-h.htm
- rramadass 7y agoYou will love this book: The Story of the Mongols Whom We Call the Tartars by Friar Giovanni Carpini. The cover itself is worth the price of the book - https://www.amazon.com/Story-Mongols-Whom-Call-Tartars/dp/0828320179/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Story+of+the+Mongols%3A+Whom+We+Call+the+Tartars&qid=1579490057&s=books&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/Story-Mongols-Whom-Call-Tartars/dp/08...
- RangerScience 7y agoOh! I will look for it. There's something... special, about finding these in old printings. I found the sequel to the one I linked at, of all places, a flea market in Temple Bar in Dublin, as a circa 1850s print. As in the book itself was over a century old! I look forward to finding a printing of yours that's nice and old, too!
- raybb 7y agoThanks for the recommendation. I've started reading it and it's a little hard to digest with the way it's written but I'm quite enjoying it :)