This is the first book to treat the impact of religious, philosophical and psychological traditions of the East on Western intellectuals, artists, travellers an

"The story of a pilgrimage which apparently fails"--Cover.

Shares the influential architect's account of a 1911 trip through central and eastern Europe and includes sketches he made along the way.

In 1883, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband embarked on a trip that would take them from Boston, across the Unites States and the Pacific, to Japan, China

It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “