Ferdinand Ossendowski
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| Ferdinand Ossendowski | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski 27 May 1876 Ludza, Russian Empire |
| Died | 3 January 1945 (68) Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Occupied Polish Region, Greater German Reich |
Ferdinand Antoni Ossendowski (May 27, 1876 - January 3, 1945) was a Polish scientist and explorer who spent long periods of time in northern Asia, including Manchuria, Siberia, Tibet, and Mongolia, and Africa. Ossendowski was notably a member of the anti-Communist counterrevolutionary forces under Aleksandr Kolchak and later Roman von Ungern-Sternberg during the Russian Revolution from 1917 into the 1920s.
Selected Bibliography
Many of Ossendowski's books on his time in Mongolia and later Africa were translated in the 1920s by Lewis Stanton Palen, who also served as the English translator for Christian Swanljung, a fellow counterrevolutionary who likewise fought in Siberia and Central Asia.
on Central Asia
- Ossendowski, Ferninand; Palen, Lewis Stanton (trans.) (1922), Beasts, Men and Gods, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., https://archive.org/details/beastsmengods00osseiala
- Ossendowski, Ferninand; Palen, Lewis Stanton (trans.) (July 1922), "Black Magic of Mongolia", Asia: The American Magazine of the Orient (Concord, NH: Asia Pub. Co.) 22 (7): 556-561, https://books.google.com/books?id=MYJQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA556
- Ossendowski, Ferninand; Palen, Lewis Stanton (trans.) (Aug. 1922), "With Baron Ungern in Urga", Asia: The American Magazine of the Orient (Concord, NH: Asia Pub. Co.) 22 (8): 614-618, https://books.google.com/books?id=MYJQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA614
- Ossendowski, Ferninand; Palen, Lewis Stanton (trans.) (1923), Man and Mystery in Asia, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001235141
on Africa
- Ossendowski, Ferninand; Palen, Lewis Stanton (trans.) (1926), The Fire of Desert Folk: The Account of a Journey Through Morocco, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.167546
- Ossendowski, Ferninand; Palen, Lewis Stanton (trans.) (1927), The Breath of The Desert: Oasis and Simoon: The Account of a Journey Through Algeria and Tunisia
- Ossendowski, Ferninand (1928), Slaves of the Sun: Travels in West Africa, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.