he is just as well; though the book is a journal, a factual account of the author's trip from Switzerland to the Khyber Pass in 1953, it is full of images redolent of poetry and mystery ??? a song about a soldier who, on returning from the war requested a pancake to be kneaded until it was `as white as this man's shirt.'orWe set up the machine and looked up to meet a hundred pairs of magnifice