The East is almost synonymous with mystery, elusive and alluring, like the aroma of a hookah. The East keeps legends about Noah's Ark, Shambhala and Belovodye; at the crossroads of Asia (namely, it is the East from the position of a geographer), scientists who are trying to comprehend the prophecies of the Qumran scrolls meet with the seekers of the Golden Goddess of the Siberian North... Nuclear wars in Ancient India and the mysterious mummy of the Altai princess; Kitezh-grad at the bottom of Lake Issyk-Kul and Aladdin's electric lamp; ninja and Bigfoot - the new book in the 100 Greats series is all about this. Let them say that the East is incomprehensible: read the book and see otherwise!