The Hungarian Who Walked to Heaven: Alexander Csoma de Koros 1784-1842 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Hungarian Who Walked to Heaven: Alexander Csoma de Koros 1784-1842 Book

The Hungarian Who walked to Heaven is a fascinating tale of Koros, a Hungarian philologist, who in the 1820s and 1830s went in search of the origins of Magyar civilisation in the Himalayas and ended up "discovering" Tibetan culture. It is hard to go wrong with this gripping story, but the author does his best by deploying some rather crude psychology on Koros, very crude anthropology on Hungarians--apparently a "mystery in Europe" (what does that make the English?)--and misleading geography: the only map takes us through somewhere called Asia Minor (presumably the Ottoman Empire) and across Iran (presumably Persia). There is nothing wrong with 60-second guides to interesting moments of history, but please treat the reader with a little more respect. --Miles TaylorRead More

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    In 1819 a Hungarian scholar set off on a 30 year odyssey in search of his own identity and origins in the Magyar people. He ended up in Ladakh where through a bizarre sequence of events he found himself decoding the mysteries of Tibetan culture for the British government.

  • 0571208053
  • 9780571208050
  • Edward Fox
  • 8 May 2001
  • Faber and Faber
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 96
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