Revolt Of The Tartars "The public is a bad guesser" edition by Thomas De Quincey Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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Revolt of the Tartars is a historical novella – though classified by some critics as a “historical essay” – written by the author of the celebrated bestselling classic Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas de Quincey. The book is subtitled “Or, Flight of the Kalmuck Khan and His People from the Russian Territories to the Frontiers of China.” It recounts events that happened in the late eighteenth century. For de Quincey, “there is no great event in modern history, or, perhaps it may be said more broadly, none in all history […] than the flight eastwards of a principal Tartar nation across the boundless steppes of Asia in the latter half of the last century.” This is how the author starts relating this factual epic that he adorns with a refined literary style along with biblical and Miltonic allusions. The book delves into the minute details of the Mongols’ long march from Russia back to their historical China, creating suspense by making his heroes among “the Torghuts,” “the Eleuths,” “the Ayoukis” and “the Tse-Ouang-Raptan” relive the dramatic moments. De Quincey’s work gives the impression of being well-documented as it is believed to have been based on the personal memoirs of the period’s Chinese Emperor himself.
Revolt Of The Tartars "The public is a bad guesser" edition by Thomas De Quincey Politics Social Sciences eBooks
This eBook was free from Internet Archive. Written before 1923, the scanned copy was not the easiest of books to read. I would be reading right along and found myself reading footnotes in strange places and foreign language passages in languages I do not know. Goes with the territory.In the latter part of the eighteenth century, about 400,000 Kalmuck Tartars left their Russian homes (camping out places) to relocate near to the outer wall of China. This was a massive undertaking, moving men, women, children, household goods, and animals over mountains, steppes, frozen rivers, deserts, and fertile lands. A modern day writer would have pulled this sixty five page book into five hundred pages by describing in detail the horrors of that journey. The author's lack of detail in the book proper did not hinder my imagination from seeing what these people endured. Ahead of the them was the unknown. To their rear, two Russian armies were chasing them. By journey's end the Kalmucks and their pursuers had dwindled in size and were all half crazed or fully crazed from, among everything else, hunger and thirst. Finding a pool of water, they fought for the water until the pool ran red with blood.
The ancestors of the Kalmucks were Tartars and Mongols who were nomadic warriors. When they warred, they took their families, food, animals and gers(sp.) with them. The Kalmucks seemed to lack the spirit of their ancestors. Could it be they lacked quality leadership? I think that is a valid question worthy of the reader's attention.
Good read.
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Revolt Of The Tartars "The public is a bad guesser" edition by Thomas De Quincey Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
This eBook was free from Internet Archive. Written before 1923, the scanned copy was not the easiest of books to read. I would be reading right along and found myself reading footnotes in strange places and foreign language passages in languages I do not know. Goes with the territory.
In the latter part of the eighteenth century, about 400,000 Kalmuck Tartars left their Russian homes (camping out places) to relocate near to the outer wall of China. This was a massive undertaking, moving men, women, children, household goods, and animals over mountains, steppes, frozen rivers, deserts, and fertile lands. A modern day writer would have pulled this sixty five page book into five hundred pages by describing in detail the horrors of that journey. The author's lack of detail in the book proper did not hinder my imagination from seeing what these people endured. Ahead of the them was the unknown. To their rear, two Russian armies were chasing them. By journey's end the Kalmucks and their pursuers had dwindled in size and were all half crazed or fully crazed from, among everything else, hunger and thirst. Finding a pool of water, they fought for the water until the pool ran red with blood.
The ancestors of the Kalmucks were Tartars and Mongols who were nomadic warriors. When they warred, they took their families, food, animals and gers(sp.) with them. The Kalmucks seemed to lack the spirit of their ancestors. Could it be they lacked quality leadership? I think that is a valid question worthy of the reader's attention.
Good read.
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