"[Warburg] presents the voyages of discovery of Asia of three generations of Warburgs. Interspersed with a sweeping view of world history, the relations between East and West, and America's role in Asia, are presented extracts from his father Paul's diary of a trip in 1893 along the coast of Asia to Japan, his own account of a family trip to Japan and nearby areas in the summer of 1966, and his twelve-year-old son Philip's essay on 'What I got out of this trip'"--Page v.