Going to Dolpo

This deceptively simple and short work by Timothy Doyle focuseson the phenomenological experience of the traveller--the traveller moving overland among images and through sounds and sensations.The author reveals his reactions to what he sees and experiences with a rare honesty and economy,and the text comunicates through the method of less is more,much like the Chinese Buddhist drawings where characters often seems to be nowhere.The book stands as an effective metaphor for human lifeand the search for salvation in the midst of suffering.Joseph,from Spain

Going to Dolpo reads as a travelogue set in a space that is at once introspective and mindful of the Outside. The relationship between narrator and companion (Kali) serves to evoke the complexities of difference in a meditative spirit. The book is an exercise in measured calm. Its aesthetic is that of the 'ordinary' transformed by the author's or traveller's seasoned eye.

Going to Dolpo is an bold and original account of the author's journey into the Himalayas. It has a cinematic feel with beautiful tracking shots high above the mountains and then zooming in to the close-ups of real people eloquently drawn. A friend recommended this book to me. He said that it is the literary eqivalent of an espresso! I think what he means is that it is small, but powerful and unadulterated. I would recommend it to anyone who apprecicates originality and doesn't like to be treated like an idiot.