Pilgrim in the Palace of Words

Contents

PART ONE At the Gates of the Western World

1 Climbing the Tower of Babel

2 At the Gates of the Western World

3 And Empires, Too, Shall Splash
Across These Pages

PART TWO Into the East

4 Genghis Khan Rides Again

5 On the Roof of the World

6 The Heart of Darkness

7 One Thousand Words for Rice

PART THREE Under the Southern Cross

8 Islands of the Many-Coloured Waters

9 See You at Machu Picchu

10 The Headwaters of the Amazon

PART FOUR To the North

11 The Lost World of the Maya

12 Haida: The Surface People

13 May You Walk the Trail of Beauty

Epilogue: The Unimaginable Future

Acknowledgements