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Allen Lane, 2024. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First UK Edition. Very good hardcover in like jacket. Some minor but edge-wear and shelf-wear to jacket. Else, a tight copy.

ALLEN LANE / PENGUIN BOOKS / PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE UK. Hardcover. GOOD. NOEAN 0 9780241434444 2024 HARDBACK IN DUST JACKET; TIGHT & CLEAN; MINOR SOIL & WEAR TO DJ (NOEAN )

Hardback. New. <p><b>This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of <i>Japan Story</i> explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over centuries of tangled, dynamic encounters<br /></b><br />From the time of the ancient Greeks onwards the West's relationship with Asia consisted for the most part of outrageous tales of strange beasts and monsters, of silk and spices shipped over vast distances and an uneasy sense of unknowable empires fantastically far away. By the twentieth century much of Asia might have come under Western rule after centuries of warfare, but its intellectual, artistic and spiritual influence was fighting back.<br /><br /><i>The Light of Asia</i> is a wonderfully varied and entertaining history of the many ways in which Asia has shaped European and North American culture over centuries of tangled, dynamic encounters, and the central importance of this vexed, often… Read More

Allen Lane, 2024. Hardcover. New. 336 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.65 inches.