Among the Mongols.

by James Gilmour

Overview

This book aims at representing to the western reader whatever is most noteworthy and interesting in the home life, manners and customs, occupations and surroundings, modes of thought, superstitions and religious beliefs and practices of the Mongol tribes who inhabit the eastern portion of the plateau of Central Asia lying between Siberia on the north and China on the south.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016399942
Publisher:	Adegi Graphics LLC
Publication date:	02/14/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	386
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

James Gilmour James Gilmour (1843-1891) was a Scottish missionary to Mongolia who made lonely, heroic efforts to preach the gospel to a people steeped in Lamaist forms of Buddhism; spending summers with nomadic Mongols on the plains of Mongolia and winters with Mongols in Peking. After his wife died in 1885, he labored in eastern Mongolia until his death at age 47, after 21 years of missionary service.