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In the final chapter of his novel, The FirstCircle, Alexander Solzhenitsyn extols thevirtues of the felt boot: “A pair of felt boots arethe two best friends a prisoner will ever have … Woethen to anyone whose feet are not shod in feltboots! … But the prisoner wearing his own felt bootshas not a care in the world.” Solzhenitsyn writesfor those unfamiliar with the extremes faced by thesociety he is describing. Similarly, but far removedin time, we are accustomed to learning a great dealmore about the uses of felt among nomadic peoplesfrom travellers who have purportedly visited themthan we do from such rare accounts as TheSecret History of the Mongols(SH) which emanate from sourcesclose to the nomads themselves.

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Felt and “Tent Carts” in The SecretHistory of the Mongols

The Religions of Mongolia. By Walther Heissig. Translated by Geoffrey Samuel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. 110 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary. $20 (cloth).

Wolfgang Bauer (ed.): Studia Sino-Mongolica. Festschrift für Herbert Franke. (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 25.) 470 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1979. DM 86.

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Felt and “Tent Carts” in The SecretHistory of the Mongols

The Religions of Mongolia. By Walther Heissig. Translated by Geoffrey Samuel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. 110 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary. $20 (cloth).

Wolfgang Bauer (ed.): Studia Sino-Mongolica. Festschrift für Herbert Franke. (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien, Bd. 25.) 470 pp. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, 1979. DM 86.