Heart of Asia: by Nicholas Roerich.

Whereas one might expect lyrical descriptions of the sublime beauty - or thrilling tales of travails thereof - of the travels through Himaalaya and trans Himaalayan regions, from Darjeeling to Kashmir to Ladakh to Mongolia via Gobi desert, to Tibet and return to India through Sikkim, such descriptions are only summed up in the art work of the Roerich family, and here one gets tales providing unexpected insights into times the travel took place in. Whether these impressions are due to bias on part of the author and his group, or merely reflection of time then, is not easy to determine. They could be the other side of the facts usually not publicised.