Über dieses Buch
“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.”
The difference is: it’s all true.
Ferdinand Ossendowski was a Pole who found himself in Siberia and on the losing side during the Bolshevik Revolution. To escape being rounded up and shot, he set out with a friend to reach the Pacific, there to take ship back to Europe. During his journey he fell in with dozens of other military men who shared the same objective… but nearly every one of them perished on the way.
It’s up to you to decide whether Ossendowski was threatened most by the beasts, by the men, or by the gods, or indeed, by the severe and uncompromising landscapes of Siberia, Mongolia, and China. That he survived at all seems improbable. The mystical mysteries and magics of Buddhism, “The Yellow Faith”, were woven about and through his sojourn and had no little part in his survival. Time after time he was put in the delicate position of being the bargainer between warring groups, and ultimately, only incredible luck and his friendship with the Hutuktu of Narabanchi Monastery saw him through.
When published in the United States, this book caused a sensation and became a best-seller. (Summary by Mark F. Smith)
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- 100 - GLOSSARY7:21 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 201 - Into the Woods11:30 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 302 - The Secret of My Fellow Traveler10:53 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 403 - The Struggle For Life9:16 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 504 - A Fisherman 05 - A Dangerous Neighbor8:48 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 606 - A River in Travail8:14 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 707 - Through Soviet Siberia 08 - Three Days on the Edge of a Precipice14:18 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 809 - To the Sayans and Safety14:32 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 910 - The Battle on the Seybi14:57 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 1011 - The Barrier of Red Partisans7:31 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 1112 - In the Country of Eternal Peace14:55 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 1213 - Mysteries, Miracles and a New Fight13:16 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 1314 - The River of the Devil10:53 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 1415 - The March of Ghosts8:59 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 1516 - In Mysterious Tibet14:08 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 1617 - PART II, Mysterious Mongolia22:36 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 1718 - The Mysterious Lama Avenger15:54 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 1819 - Wild Chahars 20 - The Demon of Jagisstai24:06 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 1921 - The Nest of Death 22 - Among the Murderers18:13 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 2023 - On a Volcano14:48 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 2124 - A Bloody Chastisement8:11 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 2225 - Harrassing Days24:26 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 2326 - The Band of White Hunghutzes 27 - Mystery in a Small Temple14:59 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 2428 - The Breath of Death14:15 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 2529 - PART III, On the Road of Great Conquerors27:53 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 2630 - Arrested! 31 - Traveling by "Urga"16:58 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 2732 - An Old Fortune Teller 33 - Death From a White Man Will Stand Behind You16:15 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 2834 - The Horror of War 35 - In the City of Living Gods20:15 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 2936 - A Son of Crusaders and Privateers22:02 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 3037 - The Camp of Martyrs9:15 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 3138 - Before the Face of Buddha20:12 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 3239 - The Man With a "Head Like a Saddle" PART IV 40 - In the Blissful Garden of a Thousand Joys22:30 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 3341 - The Dust of Centuries 42 - The Book of Miracles13:21 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 3443 - The Birth of the Living Buddha 44 - A Page in the History of the Present Living Buddha 45 - The Vision of the Living Buddha12:26 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 3546 - The Subterranean Kingdom 47 - The King of the World Before the Face of God19:36 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
- 3648 - Reality of Religious Fantasy? 49 - The Prophecy of the King of the World in 189011:38 · gelesen von Mark F. Smith
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