Portable Dragon: The Western Man's Guide to the I Ching

by R.G.H. Siu

[On back cover:]
poets and scientists,
tyrants and saints,
hermits and adventurers,
storytellers and men of letters —
pick up the book,
feel it,
throw it away

(Originally published in cloth under the title The Man of Many Qualities: A Legacy of the I Ching).

Genres: Taoism, Nonfiction, Divination

479 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1971

Reviews

[Andrés · Rating 5 out of 5]

This looks like a fascinating book, with citations from everyone from Epictetus to Thomas Wolfe, A.A. Milne to Machiavelli, Jane Austen to Tachibana Akemi. And I find myself opening it to random pages and being fascinated and intrigued by the quotations I am reading! This is a delightful and helpful and wise book.

Update 2016.04.19: I continue to dip into this fascinating and amazing book! Absolutely love it.

[Edward]

this particular edition is the one i like.

[Lysergius · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting take on the I Ching using quotations from famous thinkers to flesh out the somewhat sparse text of the original.