Michael Palin’s adventure books are always a joy, they take you to another life at another place. In Himalaya Palin explores an area ancient and remote. He visits a place where religion has existed for over 5000 years.
The book is a Himalaya travel diary of for the BBC show, and really is nothing more than a matter of fact account of what is happening with little spots of wit of all the fun little things that happen when you travel.
As such, Palin’s book is not so much a glorified account of travel as a real one, and lets you know what it is like to be there with him.
He concludes Himalaya reflecting that it is not so much the landscape that made the biggest impression on him, but the simple people who he was forced to rely on, and who took good care of him, so to leave a great memory.
There are a lot of people in the world, and this book opens a window on a few of them.
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