A VOYAGE INTO TARTARY (1689) – The real author of this work is unknown. It is a fictional encounter with a lost race, advanced technology and more. It’s possible that the writer wanted anonymity due to his then-blasphemous attitudes toward religion.
Ostensibly the travel memoirs of Heliogenes de L’Epy, A Voyage into Tartary details the author’s desire to experience the world first-hand and his subsequent expedition to the east. He and his companions visit Rome and Naples, then Athens and Constantinople.
From there the expedition proceeds further inland, where various calamities rob L’Epy of his fellow travelers. He struggles onward and luckily stumbles upon the isolated city of Heliopolis, located near what we in the 21st Century know as Samarkand. Continue reading
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