Study and research of Asian art,architecture,early photography and History has always been a passion ...The written works of travellers ,missionaries and colonial servants of the old Empire has an attraction and fascination which never dims ...

Ever since a boy I have escaped from the turbid world to follow in the minds eye the footsteps of those intrepid men and woman who have forsaken their homes to follow the lure of the East ,from the palm fringed cinnabar shores of the Indian subcontinent to the lofty ,hidden peaks of the Himalayas and the plains of the Asian Steppes ....From the dust laiden Walls of old Peking to the tinkling chimes of the temple eaves of old Cathay ...In search of wisdom ,adventure and knowledge ...