Altai--Himalaya : A Travel Diary

About the book-Nicholas Roerich's classic 1929 mystic travel book is back in print He kept a diary of his travels by yak and camel through a remote region still largely unknown today. An intellectual as well as an adventurer, he chronicles his expedition through Sinkiang, Altai-Mongolia and Tibet from 1924 to 1928 in twelve exciting chapters detailing his encounters along the parched byways of Central Asia. With a special interest in geographical mysteries and arcane and mystical arts, he searches for the hidden cities of Shambala and Agartha. Roerich's original drawings, as well as reproductions of his inspiring paintings illustrate this unique travel book. In recording daily events on his amazing 1920s expedition through the lowlands and mountains of India, China, Mongolia and the Russian-Siberian steppes, Roerich provides the reader with an insightful panorama of richly detailed personal observations and vignettes of many cultures, religious and supernatural beliefs, and sometimes inexplicable events, set against an awesome geography of our planet's unforgiving geology and climate. There is even a startling entry by Roerich of his and his companions' clearly witnessing a strange aerial object that predates the advent of the UFO by two decades.