Koestler, Arthur, — The Lotus and the Robot.

NY, Macmillan, 1961. 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Record of the author's recent pilgrimage to the East, where he hoped to find a cure for the moral and spiritual ailments. affecting the Western world. Koestler began his career as a student of science in Vienna where he had been a foreign correspondent for a few years and then became science editor of the Ullstein chain of newspapers in pre-Hitler German, and as early as 1930 was contributing articles on interplanetary travel and the splitting of the atom. Slight tanning on endpaper, DJ edge wear.