Download or read book Heart of Asia written by Nicholas Roerich and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roerich recounts his journeys to more than fifty monasteries and his meetings with lamas eager to share their spiritual insights and heritage with the Western world. His expeditions crossed thirty-five mountain passes, and included here are dramatic descriptions of snow blindness, mountain floods, and mysterious electrical phenomena, as well as intimate depictions of daily life in the rigorous yet beautiful Himalayan environment.