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IN “Men and Gods hi Mongolia” Henning Haslund, author of “Tents in Mongolia”, carries further the story of his wanderings in central Asia. Of this narrative the detail in part will already be known to those who follow the literature of Asiatic travel. In 1927 he joined the famous expedition of exploration to Sinkiang (then Chinese Turkestan) led by Sven Hedin, in the capacity of assistant in charge of transport. This is the point at which the present narrative opens, and thenceforward a breezy style carries the reader rapidly through a varied scene. The story includes a description of a Madarai devil dance festival which led to a friendship with that incarnation of the Buddha, Yolros Lama, to Etsingol, to Lop Nor, across the Black Gobi, to arrest in Hami and detention at Urumchi and, finally, to the home of the Western Turguts, where a prolonged stay was made for the study of this little-known people and their culture.
Men and Gods in Mongolia (Zayagan)
By Henning Haslund. Translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier. Pp. xvi + 358 + 40 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 15s. net.
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Geography and Travel. Nature 137, 447 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137447b0
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