This is less a book about Gurdjieff than an account of the authors travels, and how he utilizes what he learned at the Prieure. It is a fine meditation on landscapes, nations and the people he meets. A great compassion for his subjects, especially AR Orage and Ouspensky emerges. More than anything, this is an invaluable glimpse into the ideological currents bubbling beneath the surface of American and British culture during the pre-war years (utopian communal projects like Taliesin, The Putney s [...]