ABSTRACT
This book is a collection of portraits (one a self-portrait) of seven Englishmen who at different times and in different ways have striven, consciously or unconsciously, by the exercise of somewhat specialized skills to help build a bridge between the peoples and cultures of Asia and Europe. I have chosen as the subjects of my portraits a handful of those many who have devoted their talents and their lives to a labour often little appreciated and dismally unrewarding, yet in my belief supremely important to the future of humanity at large.
