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In the latter part of the eighteenth century, about 400,000 Kalmuck Tartars left their Russian homes (camping out places) to relocate near 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 land.
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May 12, 2012 · There is a taste of Kafka in this story. I don't know if Kafka read the Revolt of the Tartars but his voice is here, in the distant Russian empress, Chinese emperor and even the Dalai Lama, all of them with inscrutable designs; the armies of burocrats inside the imperial system, a machine meant to crush the will of the subjugated peoples, a power that sometimes is stronger than even the ...
- Thomas De Quincey
PREFACE DeQdincei’sfamehascrystallizedsoclosely roundtheConfessionsofanEnglishOpiumEaterthat heisoftenregardedsolelyasareflectiveandana-lyticalwriter ...
LONGMANS'ENGLISHCLASSICS EDITEDBY GEORGERICECARPENTER,A.B., ProfessorofRhetoricandEnglishCompositioninColumbiaCollege ...
De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars. Thomas De Quincey. Longmans, Green, and Company, 1896 - Tartans - 96 pages. 0 Reviews.
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
