GUMILEV L.N. (LEV NIKOLAEVICH)

Khunny v Kitae: tri veka voiny Kitaia so stepnymi narodami III-VI vv.

Moskva [Moscow], Nauka, 1974. 236 + [24]pp. + 2 maps, 21cm. 1st edition (limited to 5000 copies), in the series "Stepnaia trilogiia" vol.1, ill.cart.cover (spine in cloth), good condition, [text in Russian in Cyrillic script; English translation of the title: "The Huns in China: three centuries of war by China against steppe peoples (3-6th century)"], OCLC 164700243, X74869

-- De Lezenaar

Book number: X74869

Catalogue: Orientalia

Keywords: Orientalia geschiedenis histoire history Asiatica Asia Asie Azie China Chine Sinologie Huns Hunnen militaria oudheid antiquity antiquité

GUMILEV, L. N. (LEV NIKOLAEVICH).

Searches for an imaginary kingdom. The legend of the kingdom of Prester John. Translated by R. E. F. Smith.

Cambridge, University Press, 1987. Hardcover. With dustjacket. xx,406 pp.: plate; 23 cm. Text in English. - (paper browned) Very good.
¶ The so called 'Kingdom of Prester John' was a Christian power thought to exist in Central Asia at the time of the twelfth-century crusades. At a deeper level, for the steppe peoples it constitutes a distant dynamic which led to the world-shattering rise of Mongol power under Chinggis (Genghis) Khan. The book ranges widely in subject matter, space and time. Christian history and ecological, demographic, social and economic history are all interwoven with the politics, religions and literature of the vast and varied area between European Russia and China from c800 to 1300. The author's views are distinctive and stimulating and are not always accepted by western specialists. But his bold synthesis fills in many of the missing links between histories of Europe and medieval China and makes it possible to think of these vast areas as, in some senses, parts of a greater whole. ISBN: 9780521322140. Gewicht/Weight: 680 grs.

-- Boekhandel-Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers

Book number: 32278