Word: palliser
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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PEAKS AND LAMAS-Marco Pallis-Knopf ($5).
When Marco Pallis first went to India in 1933 he was mainly interested in climbing mountains. He climbed some. He also debunked the notion that Europeans can scale the great Indian peaks only with the help of platoons of native porters. In his spare time he drank buttered tea and...
As a traveler, Pallis is almost a total-recaller. As a travel-writer, he is far too liable to such desperate yawns as "I must not take leave of Leh without mentioning yet another kind friend. . . ." Indeed, Peaks and Lamas is a museum piece of what might be described as...
On his second trip, in 1936, Pallis still bowed politely to a few peaks; but by that time he was far more interested in Tibetan art and in the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism. No insulated tripper but a careful student of language and custom, he visited one Buddhist monastery after...
In some places he encountered tepidity, mediocrity, downright corruption. The much-touristed monastery at Himi was particularly disenchanting: the food and water were noisome, ferocious dogs snarled (chained) in the courtyard, inestimable works of art disintegrated in the corridors, the abbot was a fool for such gadgets as bicycle bells...