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

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.

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 “

Baird Spalding's description on travel to the Far East offered the Western world innovative resolutions that conceptually yet conventionally transcend spiritual