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IN the three essays which make up this volume, the author, a member in 1932 of the Yale North India Expedition under the leadership of Dr. H. de Terra, records some of his impressions of travel. Of these the first, “Spain at Sea”, deals, as its title may suggest, with the voyage to India and the life of Goa, with its former colonial splendours ; the second, "Paintings on a Fan", the fan being the plain country of the north Indian foothills, describes Ladakh and the temples, with their paintings and ritual dances of Leh ; and the third, “Lakes in the Desert”, is concerned with the more picturesque and imaginative aspect of physiographic conditions in the upper regions of the Indus Valley. The author has a keenly observant eye for form and colour, and within the limits he has imposed, his essays are vivid pieces of description.
The Clear Mirror:
a Pattern of Life in Goa and in Indian Tibet. By G. Evelyn Hutchinson. Pp. xi + 171 + 13 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1936.) 8s. 6d. net.
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The Clear Mirror. Nature 141, 854 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141854d0
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