Revival: A German Scholar in the East (1914)
Subtitle: Travel Scenes and Reflections
By: Heinrich Hackmann
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781315121482
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE; Ethnic Studies; General; TRAVEL; Far East; Description and travel; Travel
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter I From the White-Walled City  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter II Twilight Hours on the Siberian Railway  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter III A Drive in a Troika  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter IV From the World Apart  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter V The Seat of the Hutuktu  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter VI Crossing the Gobi Desert in Winter  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter VII The Spiritual and Religious Side of the Mongols  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter VIII Old Friends with New Faces  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter IX The Inward Life  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter X Springtime in the Holy Land of China  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XI A Rising Metropolis in the East  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XII In the Heart of China  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XIII The Wutaishan  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XIV Sketches by The way  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XV Thoughts by the Wayside  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XVI The Old Order changeth  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XVII The Country of the Sun-Goddess  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XVIII Beneath Tropic Suns  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XIX Secrets of the Jungle  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XX Siam and Its Buddhism  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XXI Year{u2019}s End on the Ganges  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XXII New Year{u2019}s Day in the Himalayas  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XXIII At the Tree Of Knowledge  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XXIV The Deer Park  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XXV The Position of England in India  -- H. Hackmann; title: chapter XXVI Europe and Asia -- H. Hackmann.