Beatrix Bulstrode travelled to Urga at a moment when Mongolia was breaking from Chinese rule and Russian influence was spreading. She describes the drive through a Siberia bristling with soldiers, the town of Troitskosavsk, the Mongol capital, its lamas and markets, and life on the steppe, illustrated with her own photographs.
A rare woman’s account of early twentieth-century Mongolia, with an introduction on its politics by the Times correspondent in Peking. Download the free EPUB.