The Pulse of Asia: a Journey in Central Asia illustrating the Geographic Basis of History
The Pulse of Asia: a Journey in Central Asia illustrating the Geographic Basis of History
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作者：
G. Cole
《自然》，第22卷。， 1905年，第366页，一些关于华盛顿卡内基研究所远征东波斯和突厥斯坦的叙述。亨廷顿在那一年出版的联合回忆录中展示了他的描写能力；他把这本新书献给他在地理“理性科学”方面的导师w·m·戴维斯教授，他艰苦旅行中的同伴。亨廷顿先生说，在戴维斯教授的帮助下，他在中亚待了三年，此前在小亚细亚待了四年。他对语言的研究一次又一次地对他有益；有趣的是，有一处（第153页），我们注意到他天生的同情心和需要一点自我主张之间的斗争，对东方人来说，这是自尊的外在标志。他与吉尔吉斯人的关系，甚至与弱小的尚托斯人的关系，都极其愉快；我们认为，是某种比地理训练更基本的东西，使他对自己生活的条件和局限有了深思熟虑的认识。
IN NATURE, vol. lxxii., 1905, p. 366, some account was given of the expedition of the Carnegie Institution of Washington to Eastern Persia and Turkestan. Mr. Huntington showed his descriptive power in the joint memoir issued in that year; and he dedicates his new book to Prof. W. M. Davis, his instructor in the “rational science” of geography, and his companion in arduous travel. Mr. Huntington states that, thanks to the help of Prof. Davis, he spent three years in Central Asia, in addition to four previously spent in Asia Minor. His study of languages has again and again been of service to him; and it is interesting to note at one point (p. 153) the struggle between his natural sympathy and the need for a little self-assertion, which, to the Oriental, is an outward sign of self-respect. His relations with the Khirghiz, and even with the feebler Chantos, were pleasant in the extreme; we fancy that something more fundamental than a training in geography gave him his thoughtful perception of the conditions and limitations of their lives.