The american priest John Augustine Zahm describes his tour from Germany\'s capital Berlin to the east. He explains his travels, the people he met and the countries he saw. The reader will be taken to a journey early in the 20th century to historic places like traveling the Bagdad Railway and along the trade routes of the near east, floating down the Tigris or experiences with the Islam in the past and the present. This book is a reprint of the original...