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 hero recalls an unfruitful pilgrimage to the East during his youth and begins to realize its hidden spiritual meanings

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

Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Bal

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 “