In Highest Nepal, by Norman Hardie (Allen and Unwin, 21s.)
: here we get back to the general run of travel books. Serious, thoroughly pleasant and quietly interesting account of a trip through the valleys of Upper Nepal to a Sherpa village, where the author, after climbing Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain, in '55, spent some energetic months digging himself in among the locals. The excellent amateur photographs are as good a guide as any to the book, for they show the Sherpa features and expression, which are, in - fact, the book's main theme—civilised, humorous, robust, highly intelligent : qualities which would seem to apply just as well to Mr. Hardie. In the mutual respect and a kind of amiable wariness between observed and observers lies the book's unusual friendliness and good nature; that and the author's sharp, unwhimsical eye.
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