ABSTRACT

In 1910., Dr Hackmann started on a lengthy tour throughout Mongolia, China, Japan, Cambodia, Siam, and India, studying Buddhism and other Eastern Religions, Shintoism and Taoism. He returned to London in the spring of 1911, and published this book.

chapter I|11 pages

From the White-Walled City

chapter II|9 pages

Twilight Hours on the Siberian Railway

chapter III|10 pages

A Drive in a Troika

chapter IV|4 pages

From the World Apart

chapter V|6 pages

The Seat of the Hutuktu

chapter VI|11 pages

Crossing the Gobi Desert in Winter

chapter VIII|11 pages

Old Friends with New Faces

chapter IX|18 pages

The Inward Life

chapter X|12 pages

Springtime in the Holy Land of China

chapter XI|7 pages

A Rising Metropolis in the East

chapter XII|14 pages

In the Heart of China

chapter XIII|9 pages

The Wutaishan

chapter XIV|5 pages

Sketches by The way

chapter XV|4 pages

Thoughts by the Wayside

chapter XVI|8 pages

The Old Order changeth

chapter XVII|19 pages

The Country of the Sun-Goddess

chapter XVIII|6 pages

Beneath Tropic Suns

chapter XIX|15 pages

Secrets of the Jungle

chapter XX|15 pages

Siam and Its Buddhism

chapter XXI|4 pages

Year’s End on the Ganges

chapter XXII|4 pages

New Year’s Day in the Himalayas

chapter XXIII|3 pages

At the Tree Of Knowledge

chapter XXIV|5 pages

The Deer Park

chapter XXV|7 pages

The Position of England in India

chapter XXVI|4 pages

Europe and Asia