by Ferdinand Ossendowski
Translated by Lewis Stanton Palen
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There are times, men and events about which History alone can record the final judgments; contemporaries and individual observers must only write what they have seen and heard. The very truth demands it.
-- TITUS LIVIUS.
CONTENTS
• EXPLANATORY NOTE
• BEASTS, MEN AND GODS
• Part I: DRAWING LOTS WITH DEATH
o CHAPTER I: INTO THE FORESTS
o CHAPTER II: THE SECRET OF MY FELLOW TRAVELER
o CHAPTER III: THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE
o CHAPTER IV: A FISHERMAN
o CHAPTER V: A DANGEROUS NEIGHBOR
o CHAPTER VI: A RIVER IN TRAVAIL
o CHAPTER VII: THROUGH SOVIET SIBERIA
o CHAPTER VIII: THREE DAYS ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE
o CHAPTER IX: TO THE SAYANS AND SAFETY
o CHAPTER X: THE BATTLE ON THE SEYBI
o CHAPTER XI: THE BARRIER OF RED PARTISANS
o CHAPTER XII: IN THE COUNTRY OF ETERNAL PEACE
o CHAPTER XIII: MYSTERIES, MIRACLES AND A NEW FIGHT
o CHAPTER XIV: THE RIVER OF THE DEVIL
o CHAPTER XV: THE MARCH OF GHOSTS
o CHAPTER XVI: IN MYSTERIOUS TIBET
• Part II: THE LAND OF DEMONS
o CHAPTER XVII: MYSTERIOUS MONGOLIA
o CHAPTER XVIII: THE MYSTERIOUS LAMA AVENGER
o CHAPTER XIX: WILD CHAHARS
o CHAPTER XX: THE DEMON OF JAGISSTAI
o CHAPTER XXI: THE NEST OF DEATH
o CHAPTER XXII: AMONG THE MURDERERS
o CHAPTER XXIII: ON A VOLCANO
o CHAPTER XXIV: A BLOODY CHASTISEMENT
o CHAPTER XXV: HARASSING DAYS
o CHAPTER XXVI: THE BAND OF WHITE HUNGHUTZES
o CHAPTER XXVII: MYSTERY IN A SMALL TEMPLE
o CHAPTER XXVIII: THE BREATH OF DEATH
• Part III: THE STRAINING HEART OF ASIA
o CHAPTER XXIX: ON THE ROAD OF GREAT CONQUERORS
o CHAPTER XXX: ARRESTED!
o CHAPTER XXXI: TRAVELING BY “URGA”
o CHAPTER XXXII: AN OLD FORTUNE TELLER
o CHAPTER XXXIII: “DEATH FROM THE WHITE MAN WILL STAND BEHIND YOU”
o CHAPTER XXXIV: THE HORROR OF WAR!
o CHAPTER XXXV: IN THE CITY OF LIVING GODS, OF 30,000 BUDDHAS AND 60,000 MONKS
o CHAPTER XXXVI: A SON OF CRUSADERS AND PRIVATEERS
o CHAPTER XXXVII: THE CAMP OF MARTYRS
o CHAPTER XXXVIII: BEFORE THE FACE OF BUDDHA
o CHAPTER XXXIX: “THE MAN WITH A HEAD LIKE A SADDLE”
• Part IV: THE LIVING BUDDHA
o CHAPTER XL: IN THE BLISSFUL GARDEN OF A THOUSAND JOYS
o CHAPTER XLI: THE DUST OF CENTURIES
o CHAPTER XLII: THE BOOKS OF MIRACLES
o CHAPTER XLIII: THE BIRTH OF THE LIVING BUDDHA
o CHAPTER XLIV: A PAGE IN THE HISTORY OF THE PRESENT LIVING BUDDHA
o CHAPTER XLV: THE VISION OF THE LIVING BUDDHA OF MAY 17, 1921
• Part V: MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES—THE KING OF THE WORLD
o CHAPTER XLVI: THE SUBTERRANEAN KINGDOM
o CHAPTER XLVII: THE KING OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE FACE OF GOD
o CHAPTER XLVIII: REALITY OR RELIGIOUS FANTASY?
o CHAPTER XLIX: THE PROPHECY OF THE KING OF THE WORLD IN 1890
• GLOSSARY