The Central Asian Falconry Project
The Internet May Love Eagle Huntresses, but the Eagle Hunters Certainly Don’t Until last week, Makpal Abdrazakova was the internet’s favorite eagle huntress, and I played no small part in her fame. I travelled hundreds of miles by train and … [Continue reading] about The Internet May Love Eagle Huntresses, but the Eagle Hunters Certainly Don’t
Unknown Mongolia is Douglas Carruthers’ master work, two huge volumes of ethnographic and geographic accounts from a field trip in 1910. Carruthers was accompanied by the hunter Jack Humphrey Miller, who helped finance the mission and contributed two … [Continue reading] about Unknown Mongolia : A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West Mongolia and Dzungaria
Like his predecessor William of Rubruck, Odoric was a one-named Franciscan who inexplicably ended up in Kublai Khan’s China. These friars were not the brave, determined travellers that we usually imagine pioneers to be, but zealous men sent by their … [Continue reading] about The Travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone
Anthony Jenkinson’s Explorations on the Land Route to China Working with the historian Dan Waugh at the University of Washington, Lance Jenott prepared a fine online presentation on Anthony Jenkinson’s 16th century travels to Central Asia. … [Continue reading] about Anthony Jenkinson’s Explorations on the Land Route to China
Like his predecessor William of Rubruck, Odoric was a one-named Franciscan who inexplicably ended up in Kublai Khan’s China. These friars were not the brave, determined travellers that we usually imagine pioneers to be, but zealous men sent by their … [Continue reading] about The Travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone