Owen Lattimore was a legendary adventurer, scholar and government adviser. High Tartary is a rich, panoramic, yet intensely personal record of the adventures he and his wife met on their wedding trip through the highest parts of Asia. It is a classic tribute to Asia's proud nomads and their mountain homelands. Includes 29 original photos.
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Owen Lattimore was a legendary adventurer, scholar and government adviser. High Tartary is a rich, panoramic, yet intensely personal record of the adventures he and his wife met on their wedding trip through the highest parts of Asia. It is a classic tribute to Asia's proud nomads and their mountain homelands. Includes 29 original photos.
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Add this copy of High Tartary to cart. $9.24, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Kodansha.
Add this copy of High Tartary (Kodansha Globe) to cart. $11.25, very good condition, Sold by Housing Works Online Bookstore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Kodansha.
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Very Good. Minimal wear to cover. Pages clean and binding tight. Shelfwear. Bumped edges. Minor Exterior Wear. Pages clean. Binding tight. May contain pen markings and highlights. Paperback.
Add this copy of High Tartary to cart. $36.93, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1941 by AMS Press.
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VG+ 370 pp, end paper maps. The whole empire of Ghengis Khan was Tartary. Manchuria, Mongolia, the Pamirs and Tien Shan have also been considered part of Tartary. The barbaric hordes that broke through Central Asian barriers to the east and west were considered Tartars. In short, this area is a line between the geography and history of Central Asia. VG+ in original black cloth.
"High Tartary" is the sequel to the "Desert Road to Turkestan",from the 1927-1928 journey carried out by Owen Lattimore and his wife through Chinese Turkestan. While the first book dwells in depth on Lattimore's caravan trip through Inner Mongolia, High Tartary is focused more on the places than on the traveling method. Arriving in Urumchi and thinking the dangerous part of the voyage over, Lattimore beckons his wife Eleanor to reach him. With a seventeen day sledge journey through Siberia (that is object of the beautiful "Turkestan Reunion"), Eleanor reaches her husband and together they travel trough Tartary, a medieval country from the highlands of Tien Shan to the Pamir. Similarly to the Desert Road, Lattimore makes friends with all the people he travels with, he studies in detail all the places he visits with particular attention this time not only to the trade routes, but also to the relationship between Russians and Chinese in these border towns. Naturally we must remember that the book was written just about 10 years after the Russian revolution, so the political interpretations and the situation of those times was different from now, as is also pointed out by the Author in his introduction. The most fascinating aspect of the book in my opinion is the description of all the human types and ethnicities the travelers meet. They are most fascinated with the nomads Quazaqs, Qirghiz, Chahar, Torgut, whose habits are described in detail. After a long and apparently meandering trip full of hunting, reading, just simple staying (remember it was a honey moon trip!), the travelers go to Kashgar and then through the "Five Great Passes" to India, where their trip ends. This is a great travel book, like those written in the 1920-40 (when the going was good), it has humanity, culture, humor, learning, and I would say love in it. Owen and Eleonore Lattimore's lives went on to other books and other feats, but this narrative jewel is still here to remind us of youth, enthusiasm, courage and curiosity.
