Bøker av Liam Matthew Brockey

In an age when few ventured beyond their birthplace, Andre Palmeiro left Portugal to inspect Jesuit missions from Mozambique to Japan. A global history in the guise of biography, The Visitor tells the story of a theologian whose travels bore witness to the fruitful contact-and violent collision-of East and West in the early modern era.

It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This "journey to the East" is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.