Among the Mongols by Rev. James Gilmour (GT808)

Circa 1888: Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original blue embossed decorated cloth with gilt titles and decoration on the cover and spine. 383 very clean and bright pages with gilt edges all round, previous owners signature on the first free page. Boards slightly rubbed and faded with time and bumped on the corners and frayed along the spine tips consistent with age but remain firm and intact. Scarce! (GT808)

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Starting from headquarters in Peking, the author spent the summer months among tribes to the west, north, and east of Kalgan, returning to Peking in the winter months. Engravings are believed to be from a Chinese artist in Kalgan.

James Gilmour ( 1843 - 1891) was a Scottish Protestant Christian missionary in China and Mongolia.

At the time Gilmour went to the field, Mongolia embraced that vast territory between China proper and Siberia, stretching from the Sea of Japan on the east to Turkestan on the west, and from Asiatic Russia on the north to the Great Wall of China on the south. In the center is the great Gobi Desert.

To carry the Gospel to the nomadic bands of this land, Gilmour of necessity adopted a roving life and puts up with its hardships. In 1882 the Gilmours took furlough to England. While home he published "Among the Mongols". One critic wrote, "Robinson Crusoe has turned missionary, lived years in Mongolia, and wrote a book about it."

THIS book is a record not many journeys; not a few weeks passed in scouring Mongolia, but of long years spent in unusually intimate inter-course with its people. The writer introduces his readers to a people of whom very little beyond the name is known. In fact, the all-pervading quality of this book is its freshness, and this quality manifests itself in style, incidents, things and scenes described, and, not the least, in the object and end for which the travels narrated have been undertaken.

Every page of this book testifies that the writer goes about with eye and ear open; and as he also possesses the gift of narrating in interesting and lifelike style what he sees and hears, his book possesses the charm which attaches to all true pictures of human life. [Google Books]