by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin · Tapa dura · ISBN 9782736625054
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«Lettres de Chine» is a travel epistolary by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, published by Épigones in hardback (50 pages, in French).
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was part of the Groupe Chine of the Citroën/Central-Asia exploration mission during the Croisière Jaune of 1931-1932. The volume brings together the letters sent then, with his descriptions of the journeys, the landscapes and the progress of the expedition through China.
Collection 'Carnets de route'. Adaptation by Jean-Louis Dodeman and illustrations by Frédérique Schwebel.
For readers interested in travel narratives and the history of twentieth-century expeditions.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. was a French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic, and teacher. Teilhard de Chardin investigated the theory of evolution from a perspective influenced by Henri Bergson and Christian mysticism, writing multiple scientific and religious works on the subject. His mainstream scientific achievements include his paleontological research in China, taking part in the discovery of the significant Peking Man fossils from the Zhoukoudian cave complex near Beijing. His more speculative ideas, sometimes criticized as pseudoscientific, have included a vitalist conception of the Omega Point. Along with Vladimir Vernadsky, he contributed to the development of the concept of the noosphere.
